Automated testing tool for AS400

[ReachKrishna]

Hi All.

Is there any autometed tool available in the market for AS400 application testing.

I searched the web and came up with a tool called TestBench. But I am not sure as to how good or bad is that tool. Could any one please thorugh some light on that if you have any information.

[bryce4president]

Re: Automated testing tool for AS400

What kind of testing do you want to do? We have a prototype environment that is a copy of our live environment and we can test in there. Most places have this.

[ReachKrishna]

Re: Automated testing tool for AS400

We have exactly the same scenario. We have multiple environments where in we need to follwo almost the same kind of steps for testing.

We tried using macros but wheren't very effective.

[bryce4president]

Re: Automated testing tool for AS400

Are you trying to test a very large application? Or just bits and pieces of functionality?

We find that the best way to test is to let the users have it for a little bit in the proto environment. They have a very unnatural way of finding bugs

As far as automatic unit testers....I don't know of any off hand. I'm sure someone out there has used something... I would be interested in this as well. Testing every case by hand can be quite time consuming.

[tomholden]

Re: Automated testing tool for AS400

i've never really been involved in the process but i've worked in places that used Mercury with Macros on a 5250 session (Client Access but I'm sure it would work with any emulation package)

[BenThurley]

Re: Automated testing tool for AS400

Bryce - Have you checked out JUnit? I know you like your Java. It's a framework for writing classes that unit test your application classes. If you write the tests first then you know when you've finished because the tests pass. If you change something at a later date you can run the test again in seconds to see if its messed anything else up. It does depend on the programmer knowing upfront what each class should do but I really liked it when I used it. It integrates very nice with eclipse as well.

[bryce4president]

Re: Automated testing tool for AS400

Yeah, I've heard of JUnit, I just haven't taken the time to start using it. I'm going to set it up at home on my development box since I should be trying to do things that are a little more complex then what I'm doing here at work.