automated testing tools for Oracle Forms 4.5
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 01:41:16 GMT
Message-ID: <01bdef38$42d36840$fa1cbad1_at_BruceWoods.uscom.com>
This post requests information and opinions on automated testing tools for Oracle Forms 4.5.
My company has a number of Oracle Forms that require frequent revision. This seems a natural application for an automated testing tool for regression testing them.
To date, I've looked at SQA Robot from Rational and Silk from Segue. I declined to test WinRunner from Mercury because of its cost. Mercury's base price was considerably more than its competitors.
Neither Rational or Segue's package appears to be designed to test Oracle GUI Forms. The Rational SQA Robot requires that a set of libraries be added to Oracle's Developer 2000 tool. The add-in makes the Oracle custom control visible to the SQA tool. The overhead to do that is very high when there are almost 300 forms in use at my company. Segue's Silk requires that the user define the custom controls in the form before starting the test. The manual procedure can take a long time since there may be dozens of items in our forms that Silk doesn't recognize.
Here is my question. Are there users who have actually automated Oracle GUI forms testing in an industrial environment? If so, what tools did you use. What success did you experience?
Our environment is 32-bit Win95 for the PC. We currently compile the fmx for a 16-bit target though.
Before I took my current job, I worked in a shop that used Microsoft development tools. The automated testing tools for MS GUI apps were robust, plentiful and cheap. That doesn't seem to be the case for Oracle GUI apps, unless I've missed something.
Thanks,
Bruce Woods Received on Sun Oct 04 1998 - 03:41:16 CEST