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From: timb@cca.CCA.COM (Tim Burchell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Questions on DEC/Test Manager
Message-ID: <15961@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 20:32:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: cca.15961
Posted: Mon May 18 20:32:44 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 20-May-87 04:49:31 EDT
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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                  I am evaluating DEC's Test Manager. I would  like  to
             hear from anyone that is using it.

                  I have several questions:

              + Is the system easy to learn? Does  it  takes  weeks  or
                days if your are new to VMS?

              + I found the examples to be very simple. Our test  suite
                will have several thousand tests. All the examples were
                for collections of 1-3 tests.   How  effective  is  the
                software in reporting the results of this many tests?

              + How do you differentiate between different versions  of
                the   software   you  are  testing?  Does  the  use  of
                VARIABLE's help?

              + I would like to keep the test results of  failed  tests
                for  historical  purpose. Test Manager does not seem to
                facilities  for  keeping  different  versions  of  test
                results. Any comments?

              + Did the software meet your expectations? Did  you  have
                to write workarounds to interface effectively with it?

              + If you had thousands of tests did you have  to  have  a
                person  allocated to this tool full time just to manage
                it?




                  If anyone out there using this tool  is  in  the  New
             England area, may I visit you to see it in action?


                                 Thanks,

                                 Tim Burchell
                                 Quality Assurance
                                 617-492-8860