Hi Xuefei, Welcome to the QA project!
if you don't want to checkout testautomation module by yourself, you can download from here. http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/qa/testautomation/ I added "testautomation/global/version.txt" by request of Helge. Best, From: Helge Delfs <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [qa-dev] Question about OO Automation Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:04:47 +0100 > Hi Xuefei, > > Am 11.12.08 02:59, xduan_bj schrieb: > > Hi All, > > I'm a new member in OO QA and I'm learning automation scripts. There are > > many questions I want to ask... Thanks a lot in advance. > > Welcome to OOo Quality Assurance > > > 1. What's difference between qatesttool & testautomation module? Which one > > should I use when I want to test OO3? > > testautomation is used onOOO300-Branch and DEV300-Branch starting with > m29. All prior branches are using qatesttool > So if you want to run tests on OOo 3.x please use module testautomation. > > > > 2. How can we check automation testresult pass or fail? one by one checked > > by reading log? or just from quastate website? > > Depends - you can use both ways to check your results of automated > tests. When reading the resultfiles in testtool you have to open each > resultfile one by one whereas In QUASTe it is easier and faster to check > because the results are summarized and the results are shared and can be > viewed by others. For a deeper look on testresults and debugging it is > always better to check the resultfiles in testtool directly. > > > 3. I found a script directory under qatesttool module and there are two > > batch files to run these automation scripts(releasetest & screenshot), we > > need't test all of automation scripts? just a subset is ok? what rule > > should we follow when defining the subset? > > Currently tests run on base of 'category model' See following wiki page > for definition: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/QUASTe#Category_model > Screnshots are made to help translation to find out non-translated parts > on dialogs and so on > > > > 4. If I want to learn how to writing scripts by myself and want to > > contribute some scripts to qatesttool module, how can I grasp it quickly > > and which testarea need add new scripts? > > Your guideline&suggestion is very important to recruit, thanks a lot for > > your help! > > From my experience the best way to start is running some automated tests > first to get some feeling how they work and what to do if something > fails. Get friendly with the already written code and start debugging in > case of errors. Of course reading documentation on how it works is also > important. Chum up with testtool and tooling around testtool (QUASTe, > scripts and so on) > > Some links: > OOo Automation team pages > http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/AutomationTeamsite/ooQA-TeamAutomation.html > > Testtool Quick start: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VCLTesttool > > QUASTe documentation: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/QUASTe > > > Hope this helps... > > > Best Regards > Helge > > > -- > =============================================================== > Sun Microsystems GmbH Helge Delfs > Nagelsweg 55 Quality Assurance Engineer > 20097 Hamburg OOo Team Lead Automation > http://qa.openoffice.org mailto:[email protected] > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Hde > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
