Keystroke Capturing - SW Testing Question

From: Jennifer R. Amon <bamon_at_ocvaxc.cc.oberlin.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1993 09:26:08 -0500
Message-ID: <bamon-281293092609_at_amon.cc.oberlin.edu>


I'm interested in hearing about anybody's experiences with software that will do keystroke capturing and screen capturing, so that automated testing of interactive software can be regression tested. Especially Forms * Menus. I notice that there are some options to sqlforms and runform commands that would seem to allow this sort of thing. Has anyone tried it? I'm running on VMS. See below:

$ sqlforms ?
Format is: sqlforms [options]... [formname] [userid/password] Options are:
-c crt Use this crt definition.
-e file Echo input keystrokes to file.
-i file Write output to screen and display log file.
-l Limit undo operation.
-n Do not log on to database.
-r file Read and execute keystrokes from file.
-s Suppress status line.
-w file Write output to display log file only.

$ runform ?

SQL*Forms Run Form: Release 3.0.16.12.0 - Production

Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1992. All rights reserved.

ORACLE7 Server Release 7.0.15.4.0 - Production PL/SQL Release 2.0.17.1.0 - Production
Using Oracle Toolkit Version 01.00.20.00.00 (Production) Using PL/SQL Version 01.00.35.01.00 (Production) Using SQL*Menu Version 05.00.11.13.00 (Production) Format is: runform [option]... formname [userid/password]. Options are:
-a Don't use array processing.
-b Buffer records with temporary file instead of memory.
-c crt Use this crt definition.
-d Display debugging messages.
-e file Echo input keystrokes to file.
-i file Write display log file and send to terminal.
-l Display screen to specify logon name.
-m Display block menu on startup.
-o Don't optimize field level SQL statement processing.
-q Quiet mode.
-r file Read keystrokes from file instead of terminal.
-s Print statistics after run.
-t Don't optimize transaction mode processing.
-w file Write display log file and not terminal.


Jennifer R. Amon            PHONE: (216) 775-6987
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Oberlin College
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