>>>My QA person had a question and I gigured I'd post it here and see if you guys could help me. She's looking for good automated testing software. She has looked at Rational, but it doesn't work with VFP. Any of you got any ideas? TIA!!
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>>I don't think you will find any automated testing software that works with VFP. This is because VFP controls aren't real Windows controls, they are just picture representations, so they aren't referenceable (sp?) by an HWND handle.
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>>The possible exception might be something that someone has written in VFP to test VFP apps from within, but I have not heard of anything like that...
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>I've had fellow developers talk to me about wanting to develop their own such thing, but never saw it materialize. Here's another "better mousetrap" someone can invent to get the world beating the proverbial path to their door...
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>Cheers,
>Rich.
I'd be willing to give it a shot if I had a better idea of what automated testing software does. From what I understand, it gets a handle on every control, and runs all the user runnable events, but this is as far as my understanding goes.
Erik Moore
Clientelligence