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What does your test harness loook like ?
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16/07/2004 13:14:12
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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>Paul,
>
>We're looking for something also. Have you used TestComplete? Do you know how it compares to Foxrunner?
>

I played with it a few months ago. I actually started building some test scripts (you've got the choice of VB Script, JavaScript, or C++ (if I remember right). It was pretty easy to record a test script and modify it from there. The one thing that made things a little more challenging was the fact that (by default, although you can change this) recorded scripts don't include all the mouse movements, wait states, etc. So you end up recording something, then having to go back and add code to pause, wait for windows to open, etc.

It has some built-in functions to do things like compare a precaptured screen against what the test script "saw". Essentially you just grab a screenshot of a form and it does a graphics comparision for differences. That worked pretty well, but I did run into some problems with things being reported as "broken" when the only difference between the original and the test capture was which control had focus. I'm not sure why there was a difference in some cases. At any rate, forcing a certain control to get focus via something like a mouseclick immediately before doing a screen comparison seemed to fix things.

I think we'll be buying a copy of it once we get another developer here up to speed (one of the first things I'm going to have him do is start to write some test scripts based on my existing test scenarios).

You can download a free version of it that has some built-in limitations (script sizes, etc.) - this is the version that I played with. I thought it was pretty decent.

I haven't used Foxrunner so I can't compare it.
-Paul

RCS Solutions, Inc.
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