Weblog: Week 9


Monday, July 14th, 2003

At State. Kept working on the tutorials. Started working on a tutorial about using a metrics plug-in for Eclipse. It was a very easy and short tutorial to write. I also worked on writing some GUI tests for Nortel. I was able to get the tree manipulation test to work as well as the import test to work. I'm having some problems with the calendar because Abbot is not recognizing some buttons.


Tuesday, July 15th, 2003

At Nortel. I continued working on writing tests. I have continued running into problems with Abbot. I talked with another person from another team that has been working with WinRunner, a commercial GUI testing tool, for the past year or so. He liked hearing about the open source tools, but seemed to be very positive that WinRunner could handle the testing that Jason wants done. Nortel has a license with Mercury Interactive to use WinRunner so it would not cost anything to the team to use WinRunner, but we want to try the open source tools first.


Wednesday, July 16th, 2003

Continued looking at Abbot, but I don't think that it's going to work. There are two many problems with objects that it doesn't recognize. At the end of the day I downloaded and installed WinRunner. I worked on a few test cases and it seems incredibly promising. However, I can't get WinRunner to run on my laptop so I'll have to wait until next Tuesday to work on tests to make sure that WinRunner will work for NCM.


Thursday, July 17th, 2003

At State today. I worked on the JUnit tutorial. I've also been doing research on GUI testing. I've been printing out papers that deal with GUI testing.


Friday, July 18th, 2003

Kept working on the JUnit tutorial.