| Peter B. Steiger 2005-01-19, 3:55 am |
| Back in the day, we used a program called TestPro from Sterling Software
to do our high-volume testing: you could record keystrokes to log into a
program, enter test data, rinse, lather, and repeat as often as you wanted
so instead of paying a data entry clerk ten bucks an hour entering test
data for a few days, we could pay a QA tech thirty bucks an hour for a
couple of hours to develop "infinite monkey" scripts that would repeat
the data entry process overnight, unattended. Come back in the morning
and our databases would be fully populated or we would know where the
process failed.
One of our customers still using the old DOS applications has been having
trouble lately with dropped records on their network, and I was thinking
it would be nice if they could do another infinite-monkey keyboard
pounding session. Alas, TestPro is no more; CA bought up Sterling
Software and their test products don't have anything to do with DOS at
all. So I can't send these guys over to a company that doesn't exist to
buy a product that doesn't exist (not that I haven't been tempted to do
just that).
Can anyone suggest another DOS-friendly testing utility that would let us
program it to enter randomly (or sequentially) generated test data?
{sigh} I guess I'd better send them the opportunistic locking registry
stuff, too.
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Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
If you must reply by email, you can reach me by placing zeroes
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