Ken: Thanks for writing. I neglected to mention that there is only one programmer here... me.
--Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Hall Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:21 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Software Test Bill - Years ago, while working at ADP Dealer Services, we were asked to attempt the same thing. Your take on the scope of the project is correct. It is a hugh project that requires some way to maintain the scripts in sync with the code as well as to store the sets of responses to enter. A top level team of ADP developers looked into the project and concluded that it was not cost effective. Due to the ever changing nature of the tests that are required for new apps and feature changes, keeping the scripts in sync with the next version of changes requires as much manpower as the manual testing. A better strategy for serious testing is to develop a separate staff that knows the application well and just is responsible for testing and development of test plans (an art in of itself that programmers are not very good at). I believe that this would offer a more cost effective strategy and get your company better testing that unit tests done by the programmers. In some programming environments (other than MV), there are products to do this kind of instrumented testing, but the only ones I ever investigated cost more that our entire budget for the QC staff that did our testing and a lot more at ADP. Ken At 12:57 PM 9/22/2009, you wrote: > >My boss has a new grand scheme for software testing. To test each >program revision, he wants scripts to inject sample data into user apps >and then another (big) program looks at EVERYTHING that comes out, >comparing it to a baseline. > >To me, the scope of this project is huge, perhaps bigger that our ERP >system. So far, I have been unable to talk him out of it. > >Thus, I am wondering what other people are doing in the way of software >test. Virtually all of the source code that we have is in UniBasic. > >I do not know what jargon to use to describe the test that I do now. >On a spreadsheet, I layout the various possiblities and then try each >scenario... One-by-one... Fixing bugs as I find them and then starting >the batch of tests from scratch. > >--Bill >_______________________________________________ >U2-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Ken Hall www.old-scholls.com mailto:[email protected] phone: 503-702-7841 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
