[Vtigercrm-developers] Automated Testing?

[Ken Lyle]

Is there no way to allocate some of the "testing" to
the development of reusable test protocols, rather
than just trying to find more hours?

I remember that there was some automated testing tool
that was donated(?) to the team.

If some units of this testing are not automated, I am
concerned that the overhead of the bug reporting,
repeated cross-checking, multi-platform validation,
etc. will completely stall the project.

Here is one completely simple stupid automated testing
example:  You can send a list of URLs to BrowserCam,
and it will snap screenshots.  I think the limit is 50
URLs at a time.

I believe that you can also pass in a userid and
password.

If those 50 URLs are for things that needed checking,
all that would be required would be to start the
screen snaps, and come back in a few minutes and look
at them for error messages or conditions.  BrowserCam
even arranges the snaps into a Gallery, for easy
scrutiny.

Of course, with a real automated test tool, smarter
things are possible, but I am out of my depth.

There are probably ways to write all the HTML output
of such tests to a text file, and scan for words like
"error", etc.

My feeling is that there should be machines running
during the night, producing output to be reviewed
efficiently, even automatically, that cycle repeating
every day...

My understanding is that Microsoft runs large centers
like this.

Further, the company that produced the software should
be glad for a relatively high visibility success
story.

Hopefully you understand my gist, in spite of my know
knowing the terminology.

I won't bring this up again, since there was no
response last time.

Thanks,
Ken