Re: Software testing

From: AutomatedQA - Robert Leahey (robertl_at_automatedqa.com)
Date: 10/22/04

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    Hi Jonathan,

    If you do check out TestComplete
    (http://www.automatedqa.com/products/tc.asp) as Steve mentioned, you'll want
    to pay attention to our ADO plug-in. (see the help, but basically our ADO
    object will give you access to either the 3 standard MS ADO objects, or the
    6 Borland-style ADO objects.) From there, you can automate database
    population and verification. i.e., you can populate a DB with testing data,
    and you can bypass your client app entirely, having TestComplete talk to
    your DB directly, verifying the records there.

    As for the cases you mentioned (GUI validation), this is very
    straight-forward with TestComplete. Check out the demos and the Getting
    Started texts for info on how to do this sort of checking. Feel free to send
    me questions or post to our newsgroups directly at forums.automatedqa.com.
    For the extended cases you mention, you'll want to check out the concepts of
    data-driven and object-driven testing.

    Good luck, 

    -- 
Robert Leahey
www.automatedqa.com
AutomatedQA
"Jonathan Neve" <jonathan@!nospam!microtec.fr> wrote in message 
news:4177eedd@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking for a tool that will in some way facilitate / automate 
> functionnal application testing. What would be your suggestions? What I 
> really need is something that can understand something of the buisness 
> logic, and make sure everything works as designed.
>
> I work in the realm of database application programming, so unit testing 
> is to me of limited use. It's not so much the procedures, functions and 
> classes I need to test, as the actual outcome, the GUI, etc. If a label is 
> too short to display all the data, this is a bug. If a grid contains 
> erroneous data, or lacks data, this is a bug. It's not just a matter of 
> error messages (since this is usually the easiest kind of bug to detect).
>
> What I need, is a tool in which one can define all the buisness logic of 
> the application, telling it exactly what should happen in each situation, 
> and that can then try out every combination, in random order, a random 
> number of times, coming at each problem from every possible angle, etc.
>
> What would you suggest? Is there a tool that at least comes close to my 
> above specifications?
>
> Thanks!
> Jonathan Neve.
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