For automated testing, look at the Test Harness that ships with VFP7.


>Hello:
>
>I'm a novice at OOP. I read to compensate and then try to apply
>what I've read. For example,
>
>"In a traditional system a unit test is often a test of
>procedures or subroutines. In object-oriented software it
>concerns classes, which implies that unit tests in object-
>oriented code is therefore more complex than testing ordinary
>(procedural) code."
>--- Ivar Jacobsen, "Object-Oriented Software Engineering"
>
>I'm attempting to implement the following levels of testing:
>
> 1- UNIT TESTING, done during coding to insure each class
> class is built correctly and performs properly.
>
> 2- INTEGRATION TESTING, to insure that objects work
> together correctly.
>
> 3- SYSTEM TESTING, to test the overall system or app.
>
>I would like to automate each of these testing levels. This
>would make life easier when performing REGRESSION TESTING to
>insure prior functionality is not lost. It would be nice if
>UNIT and INTEGRATION TESTING can be automated together.
>
>Whether you've called your testing by these names or not, I'm
>sure that you've tested at these levels.
>
>My questions are the following:
>
> 1- Have you ever AUTOMATED your testing in VFP development?
>
> 2- How did you do it? Scripts, procedures, macros, custom
> classes? How?
>
> 3- Are there any articles or examples that I might access
> to help me automate MY testing? Where may I find them?
>
> 4- Have you done any STATE-BASED testing? What is the BEST
> way to do this in VFP? (This tests the interactions
> between operations of a class by monitoring changes that
> take place in an object's properties. These properties
> persist between different operations and can affect
> operation interactions.)
>
> 5- Have you used a TEST LOG to track the testing? What did
> you include in it?
>
> 6- Are there any TOOLS available to assist with testing
> (and AUTOMATED TESTING) other than those included with VFP?
> What are these tools and where can they be found?
>
>Thanks for your help! Happy Thanksgiving to all!
>
>David Powell
>WagnerSys@aol.com