[archive] Automated testing tools

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I am in the process of researching automated testing tools. Are there any recommendations for tools that will work with ACUCOBOL?

You can try the built in macro recorder/player in the runtime. See W$keybuf for additional information.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 June 2005]

I am in the process of researching automated testing tools. Are there any recommendations for tools that will work with ACUCOBOL?

I have used Rational Robot and Rational TestManger to run ACUCOBOL-GT programs.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 June 2005]

I am in the process of researching automated testing tools. Are there any recommendations for tools that will work with ACUCOBOL?

Did you have any issues with object recognition with the Rational tools?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 June 2005]

I am in the process of researching automated testing tools. Are there any recommendations for tools that will work with ACUCOBOL?

I was able to use Rational, start a telnet session and run my COBOL programs. Rational monitors sockets and other TCP/IP protocols. Rational is not aware of the ACUCOBOL-GT client /server protocols ( AcuServer or Thin Client) so there may be some issues with using Rational and the ACUCOBOL-GT client /server protocols.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 June 2005]

I am in the process of researching automated testing tools. Are there any recommendations for tools that will work with ACUCOBOL?

Depending on what you're attempting to test we've been very successful using the recorder in the Acucbol runtime to create automated regression tests. We start with a preset set of data files, run multiple scripts to do things like enter customer sales orders, then use a reporting tool to print the output to a disk file and compare the results to a preset original results file. We have over 200 tests that run on a nightly basis to make sure we don't add any unnecessary 'features' to our product.

Brad