Testing Automation Tools for OpenROAD

[Charaka Wijerathne]

Hi Guys,

Could you please add your comments on, what is the best tool that we can use for automation testing for OpenROAD ?

Thanks.

Kind Regards,

Charaka Wijerathne.

[adr...@octavo2.demon.co.uk]

Hi,

 

Test Complete from SmartBear is what Actian use internally.

 

I understand that changes have been made in OpenROAD 6+ to ensure Test Complete can drive OpenROAD.

 

The trouble with Test Complete in my experience is that the sales people call you the second the product has downloaded and then call you every week for a number of months thereafter.

 

We will be trying Test Complete with one of our clients when we get them onto 6 later this year.

 

There are a number of presentations on this and other test techniques in the London Actian conference in October.

 

Cheers

 

Adrian

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[Bodo Bergmann]

Hi Charaka,

 

As Adrian  mentioned we are using TestComplete for GUI tests, that is wherever visual representation with user interaction (mouse clicks, data entry )is required (User Frames, Installer, etc.).

 

Anyway a big part of our automated tests run without any user interaction.

These could be tests for new features (e.g. new classes, attributes, methods, etc.), but also regression tests for bugs we fixed.

For those tests we use automated unit testing.

Our unit tests are written in OpenROAD (4GL) using our OpenROAD Unit Testing Framework,
which is available from https://github.com/ActianCorp/OpenROAD_UnitTestFramework

(downloadable ZIP archive https://github.com/ActianCorp/OpenROAD_UnitTestFramework/archive/master.zip).

 

The automation is mainly done using batch/shell scripts, which

·         Get the latest scripts and unit tests (XML export files, and required resources) from a version control system (Git/Stash repository)

·         Import the XML export files as applications into a test database

·         Run the tests using rundbapp, makeimage/runimage, or special runner script
(so we could build a shared library before testing an application using its 3GL procedures);
handle run timeouts (e.g. for "hang" situations)

·         Print test results including performance stats

 

BTW: One of my presentations during the upcoming event on 11 October 2016 in London has the title "OpenROAD Daily Build and Test Automation".

 

Kind regards,

Bodo.

 

Bodo Bergmann

Principal Software Engineer

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[Charaka Wijerathne]

Thank you Bodo, Adrian

Greatly appreciate your comments.

 

 

Kind Regards,

Charaka Wijerathne

[Chris Clark]

As Bodo mentioned, we have an event coming up in October this year which has two sessions that both cover testing OpenROAD code/applications. There is no charge for the event and its a great chance to meet up with some of the engineering team as well as connect with fellow users.

For more information check out http://ingres.actian.com/2016_TechUserGroup_IngresOpenROAD_Agenda

Chris