TestScript-Parser Version 1.0.0

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Introduction

This is about a "TestScript-Parser" which generate unit-test-statements for Java from an XML-file. This tool is used in the Asgaard-framework built on pure Java components. The focus to haveing an automatic test-environment which guarantees the consistence of the developed software within a daily built.

Why testing?

From our experience we can say that software which does not include testing does not work. Strictly speaking, even testing is not enough. To find bugs as early as possible you have to run a whole set of tests as often as possible and therefore you need automatic support. The aim is to run the tests at least on a daily basis; in return you will have a guaranteed running software everyeevening.

What is a Test-Script?

A Test-script is a collection of test statements. Each statement is a method-call of an object or class. There are tree aspects monitored:

• If an exception is thrown by the monitored object, the test of this method fails, and the exception is written to the display as well as in a log-file;
• The result of a method is stored and is accessible for further test-statements and for the examination of the test-environment;
• The execution-time of each native-method call is recorded, which may help meeting time-constraints.

Limitations

These test-scripts can not:

• Implement functional tests. A functional test defines a set of input data plus a corresponding valid set of output data. However, these test-scripts define only an unit-level test;
• Prevent from not appropriate test scenarios and -cases.

A special set of functional tests are implemented by Robert Kosara in order to do regression tests on dynamic web-pages. These tests are a separate package. A classic test-environment for functional tests "input-file : call : output-file" has not been implemented yet.

Example

Testscripts are easy to use and are defined in XML. (More about XML is with www.ibm.com/developer/xml), here you can see an easy example-test-statement:

<construct test="newString1" class="java.lang.String">

<param>

<object class="java.lang.String">"Just some string"</object>

</param>

</construct>

This test-statement creates simply a string. This "Just some string" is available under the name newString1 for any further test-statements.

For some more challenging examples click here.

Complete Distribution

The Distribution is under GNU public license Version 2; there is absolutely NO WARRANTY on this software.

A complete distribution contains one compressed zip-archive

test.zip 1.0.0a final release

Documentation Only

For a more detailed online documentation click here and there is also a printable version in pdf.

Requirements

• SUN JDK 1.1.6 or higher

Support

Sorry, there is no support on this software yet, but feel free to send all your remarks, bug-reports and ideas to klaus@ifs.tuwien.ac.at. I hope that this piece of software will help you.