Re: Testing

["Jamie Coles" <jcoles@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Loyd,

Just a quick one this time from me.

We have many customers who use our Automated tools - including extracting data 
for testing, as well as automating the Unit,System
and End User testing.

Without going into a long advertising monologue e-mail - please respond 
off-list if you would like me to expand on how we can assist
you.

For instance we can track passed parameters and identify what database rules 
could cause a program to blow up without endangering
live data.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards

Jamie Coles
Original Software.
jcoles@origsoft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Loyd Goodbar" <loyd@blackrobes.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:42 AM
Subject: Testing


I'm in the middle of reading _The Pragmatic Programmer_ (Andrew Hunt and David
Thomas; Addison-Wesley 2000) and came across the testing section of the book
("Code That's Easy to Test").

The argument is, module/unit testing should be a built-in, selectable/runnable
part of the application. This is true in the Perl world; the make process
typically runs a make test to ensure Perl modules do what they think they're
supposed to do.

My question is, what kind of testing is built into our applications? I've been
working on an in-house tools service program, and I have a rudimentary test
script (call a subprocedure, compare its results to those expected) outside of
the service program. After reading the relevant section in Pragmatic
Programmer, I'm going to try creating a test subprocedure that exercises the
entire service program.

In the RPG/CL world, what are you doing to make a test suite for your
programs? Is there a daily build? The traditional approach is to have a "test
environment", but does it truly duplicate the production environment? Does the
test environment have invalid data (I think it should), or is it just a mirror
of the production environment? When programs blow up in production, how do we
test the programs without endangering live data (assuming blowing up didn't
cause it in the first place)?

I'm not trying to flame, but am interested in the testing procedures in use
for traditional RPG/ILE/CL programming.

Loyd
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