Well, I rang up Rational in Australia, and according to them, that
horrid rumour is true: Rational are NOT planning to come out with a
version that supports Delphi 5. Time to start protesting (again).
That, for us, will be an even stronger reason to delay moving to Delphi
5 than the D5 upgrade price. We've invested a lot of time in SQA Robot,
and it does the job extremely well.
To answer Kerry's questions, yes, it copes with all properties of
components, like position, caption and that, and not when you change the
component class name. Yes, you just stick in in "record" mode and go
for it. We've only been using it from February, and it's only really
proved itself in the last few months - you've got to invest the time to
build all the scripts before it starts paying dividends.
>Maybe a good demo at the next DUG meeting :-)
What, you mean next October? :) I don't know - we probably need
managers to go to that sort of meeting, not developers. I'm off to
Sydney in under three weeks, anyway. I'll probably stay on this list
though (shhh, don't tell on me ;)
Jeremy wrote:
>I dont give it 10/10 cos at $5000 a licence its not the best performing
thing
Eh?! Luxury! Our tester here says we paid $8000 for our copy!!
Cheers,
Carl Reynolds Ph: +64-9-4154790
CJN Technologies Ltd. Fax: +64-9-4154791
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DDI: +64-9-4154795
PO Box 302-278, North Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand
12 Piermark Drive, North Harbour Estate, Auckland, NZ
Visit our website at http://www.cjntech.co.nz/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nahum Wild [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 3:49 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list database
> Subject: RE: [DUG-DB]: SQA-Robot
>
> Our software testers swear by it, or at us if we change component
> names
> because it kills their scripts. We include an SqaRobot DCU in the
> project
> whenever we make a build to send to software testing. The only
> problem is
> because a DCU is used its delphi version specific so you have to keep
> paying
> rational money to keeping getting the latest DCU whenever a delpih
> patch is
> released. The interesting thing is that, according to our software
> testers,
> rational has dropped support for Delphi in SQA Robot. The last
> version
> supported being D4.03. Has anybody heard anything different?
>
>
> Nahum Wild
> CSG Software Developer
> Swichtec Power Systems
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerry Sainsbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 15 October 1999 15:38
> To: Multiple recipients of list database
> Subject: Re: [DUG-DB]: SQA-Robot
>
>
> Given that it 'understands' Delphi objects, I guess that means it
> copes with
> things like moving buttons around? What if you change the caption? I
> guess
> it dies if you change the *name* of the component?
>
> How do you build the scripts -- does one put SQA Robot in 'record'
> mode, and
> use the application as normal?
>
> Sounds pretty natty.
>
> I've never managed to convince anybody to spend the time and money
> required
> to make a product like that pay-off. Have you been using it for long?
>
> Maybe a good demo at the next DUG meeting :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Kerry S
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carl Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 3:04 PM
> Subject: RE: [DUG-DB]: SQA-Robot
>
>
> > SQA Robot is part of SQA Suite, which has just changed its name to
> > Rational Team Test. :) Look it up at http://www.rational.com/.
> It's a
> > pretty cool program which enables you to write testing scripts to
> run
> > over your software so that when you make some grass-roots change to
> your
> > code, you can re-run your scripts (which choose menu options, add
> and
> > delete data records, show forms etc.) to determine what new things
> > you've broken as a result of that last code "fix". The cool part is
> > that it understands Delphi objects and SQL result sets. If your old
> > program retrieved three rows in your query, and your new program
> > retrieves two, it lets you know.
> >
> > Invaluable during program testing, so our tester informs us.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Carl Reynolds Ph: +64-9-4154790
> > CJN Technologies Ltd. Fax: +64-9-4154791
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] DDI: +64-9-4154795
> > PO Box 302-278, North Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand
> > 12 Piermark Drive, North Harbour Estate, Auckland, NZ
> > Visit our website at http://www.cjntech.co.nz/
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kerry Sainsbury [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 1:10 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list database
> > > Subject: [DUG-DB]: SQA-Robot (was: Select * (was: (Informix)
> > > Where can I get sqlca.h?)
> > >
> > > Carl said:
> > > > > if we nailed down the format of the database on every build,
> we
> > > would
> > > have
> > > > > a fair bit of work to identify and fix all the code every time
> the
> > > > > database changes (although SQA robot helps).
> > >
> > > Would you mind (sometime when you have time) talking a bit more
> about
> > > how
> > > you make use of SQL robot?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Kerry S
> > >
> > >
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> > > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz
> >
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