Tool Mentor: Executing a Suite of Test Scripts Using Rational TestFactory

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Purpose

This tool mentor describes how to use Rational TestFactory to create and run a suite of test scripts.

Related Rational Unified Process™ information:

Activity: Execute Test, refer to the section titled "Execute Test Procedures"

Overview

A “Test Suite” is the Rational TestFactory tool that lets you run a suite of test scripts. This TestFactory object lets you organize test scripts, run them in a batch as a suite, and then analyze their code-based test coverage.

This tool mentor is applicable when running Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4.0.

To use Rational TestFactory to execute a suite of test scripts:

Create a suite of test scripts
Run the suite of test scripts

1. Create a suite of test scripts

A Test Suite object is a container to which you add the test scripts that you want to run as a batch. The suite of scripts can include test scripts recorded in Rational Robot as well as test scripts generated in Rational TestFactory.

To create test scripts in Robot, see Tool Mentor: Creating Test Scripts Using Rational Robot.
To generate test scripts in TestFactory, see Tool Mentor: Generating Test Scripts Automatically Using Rational TestFactory.

Test Suites are useful for organizing and running groups of best scripts, defect scripts, and scripts created against a specific build of the application-under-test (AUT). The test scripts that you include in the Test Suite remain linked to the Test Suite object. You can run the Test Suite as a regression suite on future builds of the AUT.

Rational TestFactory provides two methods for creating a Test Suite:

You can let TestFactory create the Test Suite automatically with selected test scripts.
You can manually add a Test Suite object to the application map and then populate the Test Suite with test scripts.

If you want to analyze the code-based test coverage for the test scripts in the suite, you must instrument the AUT before you run the Test Suite. Rational TestFactory calculates code-based test coverage for test scripts only if the application is instrumented.

Refer to the following topics in Rational TestFactory online Help:

Test Suites: What they are and how they work
Working with Test Suites
Viewing code coverage for a Robot script
Instrumenting the application-under-test

2. Run the suite of test scripts

When you run a Test Suite, Rational TestFactory executes each test script in the Test Suite in the order in which it appears in the Test Suite list. If the order of the test scripts is important, you can reorder them before running the Test Suite.

Refer to the Run a Test Suite manually topic in Rational TestFactory online Help.

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