Large Scale Test Suite Tools Wanted

[Jim Gilbert]

I would appreciate references to any public domain or commercial packages 
designed to facilitate the construction, operation, and maintenance
of script-driven regression testing suites for large-scale software
subsystems.

We desire to systematically exercise complex collections of transaction
processing, data base management, and records management software.  We
would like tools to enable us to construct suites of tests which
were capable of running in unattended batch mode, and which produced
reports of the differences observed between expected results and the
results noted.  Reports may be produced on the fly or by journaling
responses and comparing them to expected responses later.

The languages used to define test actions and expected responses
should be appropriate and much more productive to use than typical
high-level procedural languages, such as Pascal, FORTRAN, or C.

In our particular application we will be exercising complexes of
hardware and software configured in a LAN configuration.  Out first
specific application area is building regression tests for our ISO
level 7 Application Services protocols.

I would also appreciate any pointers to published research on this
general topic.  

Thank you kindly.

Jim Gilbert
Senior Consulting Engineer
FileNet Corporation
3530 Hyland Ave.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626		(714) 966-2344

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