Automated Testing Tools for VFP

Vesna

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Dec 5, 2001, 4:20:38 PM12/5/01

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Hi, I know this is a QA question and not a development
question, but I was wondering if anyone out there is using
an automated testing tool to test their product that is
written in FoxPro?

I need something that will test from a QA perspective and
not a developer perspective. I've looked at all the top
notch qa tools - Winrunner, QARun, etc. Only a few of
them claim that they work with FoxPro. Since there are
only a few, my other question is: How WELL do they work
with FoxPro...and perhaps, which one works best?

Thank you in advance for your help,

Vesna

Rick Bean

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Dec 5, 2001, 5:15:54 PM12/5/01

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Vesna,
One of the new features in VFP 7.0 (from the MS VFP web site) is:
a.. Active Accessibility
Visual FoxPro supports Microsoft Active AccessibilityŽ 2.0 and uses the
accessibility interface (IAccessible) to implement full support for all
Visual FoxPro user interface elements-including forms, dialog boxes, and
menus-at design time and run time.

An additional tool supplied (from the VFP 7.0 help file) is "The Automated
Test Harness tool is intended to help create scripts that you can run to
automate the testing of your Visual FoxPro applications. The tool uses
Microsoft Accessibility (MSAA) technology to record and play back mouse and
keyboard events.". This was written by some people at AccPac (they bought
the SBT Accounting page that was written in FoxPro).

Rick

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Vesna

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Dec 6, 2001, 9:44:06 AM12/6/01

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Thank you Rick, that's awesome info!

We are planning to move to VFP 7.0, but I don't think it
will be any time soon though. We've just finished doing a
major release using VFP 6 and don't have the time or
resources to research changes we'd have to do if we moved
to VFP 7.0.

Is it at all possible (she asks as she holds her breath)
that these tools you mentioned below are backwards
compatible and I'd be able to use them with VFP 6?

Thanks,

Ves

>-----Original Message-----
>Vesna,
>One of the new features in VFP 7.0 (from the MS VFP web
site) is:
>a.. Active Accessibility

>Visual FoxPro supports Microsoft Active Accessibility®

>.
>

Fred Taylor

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Dec 6, 2001, 10:03:14 AM12/6/01

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No, you wouldn't be able to use those tools from VFP7 in VFP6. There's been
several lower level changes within VFP7 that supports this, so VFP6 is out.

--

Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
Please respond only to the newsgroups so that all may benefit.

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Thank you Rick, that's awesome info!

We are planning to move to VFP 7.0, but I don't think it
will be any time soon though. We've just finished doing a
major release using VFP 6 and don't have the time or
resources to research changes we'd have to do if we moved
to VFP 7.0.

Is it at all possible (she asks as she holds her breath)
that these tools you mentioned below are backwards
compatible and I'd be able to use them with VFP 6?

Thanks,

Ves

>-----Original Message-----
>Vesna,
>One of the new features in VFP 7.0 (from the MS VFP web
site) is:
>a.. Active Accessibility

>Visual FoxPro supports Microsoft Active AccessibilityŽ

Brett Shearer

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Dec 7, 2001, 12:52:45 AM12/7/01

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I have been developing in VFP6 / 7 for a current project, and have done all
coding in VFP7, and release in VFP6. From this, I would suggest that the
upgrade path from 6 to 7 is not a large one.

Obviously, there are 'better' ways to achieve the same results in 7, but all
code (to my knowledge)* is forward compatible.

*I accept NO responsibility :)

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