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Software Testing and QTP Automation

eBook useful for learning Software Testing and QTP (Quick Test professional), a Test automation tool.

Rational Robot

This roadmap provides an outline of the material that is most useful to bring users up the
Rational Robot learning curve for functional testing. The emphasis will be on the steps
you will need to take to understand Robot and get to the point where you can efficiently
use the tool for functional testing. First, find the section that best describes your current
learning challenge with Robot. Then study the material in that section to help advance
you to the next level

TSL ( Test Script Language)

This book is a comprehensive guide to Mercury Interactive�s Test Script
Language (TSL). It provides a detailed description of TSL and how to use it in
your test scripts. It lists all TSL functions alphabetically and by category, and
describes the parameters, return values, and availability for each function.
This book assumes that you are already familiar with WinRunner. For
information on using WinRunner, see the WinRunner User�s Guide

Architectures of Test Automation

Many of the ideas in this presentation were jointly developed with Doug Hoffman, in a course that we
taught together on test automation, and in the Los Altos Workshops on Software Testing (LAWST) and
the Austin Workshop on Test Automation (AWTA).
∙ LAWST 5 focused on oracles. Participants were Chris Agruss, James Bach, Jack Falk, David
Gelperin, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Doug Hoffman, Bob Johnson, Cem Kaner, Brian Lawrence,
Noel Nyman, Jeff Payne, Johanna Rothman, Melora Svoboda, Loretta Suzuki, and Ned
Young.
∙ LAWST 1-3 focused on several aspects of automated testing. Participants were Chris Agruss,
Tom Arnold, Richard Bender, James Bach, Jim Brooks, Karla Fisher, Chip Groder, Elizabeth
Hendrickson, Doug Hoffman, Keith W. Hooper, III, Bob Johnson, Cem Kaner, Brian Lawrence,
Tom Lindemuth, Brian Marick, Thanga Meenakshi, Noel Nyman, Jeffery E. Payne, Bret
Pettichord, Drew Pritsker, Johanna Rothman, Jane Stepak, Melora Svoboda, Jeremy White,
and Rodney Wilson.
∙ AWTA also reviewed and discussed several strategies of test automation. Participants in the
first meeting were Chris Agruss, Robyn Brilliant, Harvey Deutsch, Allen Johnson, Cem Kaner,
Brian Lawrence, Barton Layne, Chang Lui, Jamie Mitchell, Noel Nyman, Barindralal Pal, Bret
Pettichord, Christiano Plini, Cynthia Sadler, and Beth Schmitz.
I�m indebted to Hans Buwalda, Elizabeth Hendrickson, Alan Jorgensen, Noel Nyman , Harry Robinson,
James Tierney, and James Whittaker for additional explanations of test architecture and/or stochastic
testing

Functional Test Automation

F
unctional testing assures that your implementation of SAP meets
your business requirements. Given the highly configurable and
tightly integrated nature of the SAP modules, as well as the probability that you will also integrate in-house applications or third-party
plug-ins, it is a critical and challenging task requiring the verification
of hundreds or even thousands of business processes and the rules
that govern them.
This chapter explores the business case for automating your functional testing, the alternative automation approaches to consider, and
organizational considerations and techniques for maintaining and
managing your test automation assets

Functional test automation tools

This volume is a component of the Yphise Software Assessment Report (see chapter entitled
�Yphise Software Assessment Reports�).
It is designed to monitor developments of the software product market and to select a short
list.
� It assesses the maturity and opportunities of the products available.
� It highlights the list of software products that we consider of interest to large companies.
Our experience has shown that products do not always satisfactorily provide the functions
that we expect, based on vendor positioning. As a result, many improper selections of
software products are made.
� It highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each software product, based on our detailed
assessment conducted according to our ISO 9001-certified methodology. It provides a topdown ranking of the products and it outlines our opinion.

A Vision for Automated Testing

TT-Medal is a European research project on tests and testing methodologies
for advanced languages. In TT-Medal key roles are assigned to international
standards, the Testing and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3) by ETSI and ITUT, the Unified Modelling Language (UML2.0) and its testing profile by the
OMG.
Reading this white paper provides you a summary on the state of the art of
test tools, an introduction to TT-Medal achievements, in particular insight into
the industrial case studies that have been performed in the project. Three
major directions for research are addressed: a common test tool
infrastructure, approaches for the automatic generation of TTCN-3 tests, and
the integrated system and test development. Our conclusion picks up these
directions and attempts to describe a future picture for automated testing in
the next years

Automated Testing with WWW::Mechanize

Humans make mistakes
Bugs cost time & money
Bugs are demoralizing
Testing shows that your code works
At least in the cases that you're testin

Homebrew Test Automation

Bret Pettichord, a software testing expert and an influential author and speaker,
joined ThoughtWorks in July 2004. Mr. Pettichord serves ThoughtWorks, Inc. as a
test architect, implementing effective technologies for automated testing and
promoting responsible methodologies for agile testing and quality assurance.
His software testing philosophy is context-driven, focusing on uncovering
important risks, maintaining close relations with programmers, and using agile
testing methods that provide rapid feedback. He has broad experience using
commercial and open-source tools for automated testing.
Mr. Pettichord is a founder of the Context-Driven School of software testing,
which sees testing as a technical investigation of software risk that requires skill,
adaptability and tact. He co-authored Lessons Learned in Software Testing (a Jolt
Award finalist) to explain the thinking of the School. He has published over two
dozen papers on software testing and test automation. His ideas about homebrew
automation, agile testing and testability have been featured in Application
Development Trends and The Rational Edge.
As a member of the Agile community, he has regularly hosted workshops that
have brought together leading testers and programmers to assess and develop
methods for testing on agile projects. Mr. Pettichord founded the Austin Workshop
on Test Automation in 2000. It�s a yearly event that brings together leading test
automators. He has been regularly contributing to similar workshops since the first
meeting of the Los Altos Workshop on Software Testing in 1996. He regularly
speaks at conferences around the world.

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