Testing Tools I am currently developing few tools, which I believe can be useful
and there is no free equivalent for them. My goal is to create a set of
free tools, which can be effectively used to facilitate testing
process. Read below about my vision of the test suite. Free test suite My
goal is to create a set of free tools, which can effectively facilitate
the testing process. This set would include tools for managing tests
and tools for helping in test execution. My plan is to create this
toolkit in a unix way i.e. to build the framework from the
smaller well defined blocks, which would be easily adaptable outside
the framework. I don't like huge toolkits made of tightly integrated
blocks, which are useless outside the toolkit.
My current focus is on tools helping in test execution rather then in test management.
I am working on 2 tools:
- A tool for reporting database tables contents.
There
are different methodologies describing how to create test cases, how to
manage them. But regardless on the methodology, execution of most of
test cases looks like this: Check the interesting database tables, run
test scenario, check interesting tables again and document your
observations. The purpose of the tool is to help you with the
documenting phase. You can find more details here.
- A tool for testing Win32 gui applications.
It
allows you to do the basic stuff you can do with tools like winrunner
or testpartner. I am reluctant in calling this tool an equivalent of
commercial tools, because it lacks many fancy features. But there are
some reasons why may consider using it. Read more.
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