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As we
all know manual regression testing of software and/or hardware is error
prone, very costly and time consuming.
This
software provides a simple mechanism for the automation of your
regression testing via a text based scripting language.
The Test Script Runner
application runs on Microsoft windows and is fully VISTA compatible.
The screen shot above
shows the execution of a short test script. As you can see there are two
windows for each script: -
1) The main window (shown to the left) is split into two
with the top containing the script which shows passes/fails and the
currently executing command and the bottom showing the values assigned to
the various variables defined by the script.
2) The second window (show to the right) shows the trace
information generated as the script is executed. This trace information
is saved in a log file along with the results each time the script
executes.
The results of script
regression test run can be viewed in the GUI or via result files
(see Results.html
for examples). There are two formats for the results: -
1. XML. This allows you to automate results checking due
to the well defined format of the file.
2. Comma Separated Values (CSV). This allows you to analyze
the results in a spreadsheet such as Excel.
The software also provides a mechanism that allows
you to have the results emailed to a list of email addresses so that you
do not even need to be at the testing station to find out if your test
passed or failed.
Expanding the system to communicate with new
equipment or software interfaces is easy see Plug-in Development for details on how this is
achieved.
V2.0 of Test Script Runner includes a batch queue
that allows multiple scripts to be run. This also includes a feature that
allows you to create a plug-in to the batch queue that could download
software to your test device such as a mobile phone and then run scripts
against the new version. To find out how to create a plug-in for the
batch queue visit Batch
Queue Item Plug-in Development
You can try Test Script Runner for yourself free by
downloading the application which includes a 28 day trial period from download.html.
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