Scripting for QA Engineers David Shtern, Ph.D.

Common tasks QA Engineers face Administrative tasks – copying folders, files, creating directories, checking for new builds, backing up files etc., Installation tests– installing applications, verifying installed modules, files and directories, Log files analyses – analyzing log files, comparing with standard (baseline) values etc. Running smoke/acceptance tests automatically Misc. - Automating various activities. ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.

Tools used AutoIt Scripting languages – Perl, Python, Ruby (and some others) Windows Shell Scripting (batch files) Test automation tools Applications/scripts created with other programming languages ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.

Task -1 We need to create a script which: Checks if new build is available (on shared drive) and if yes – download it from mapped directory, install the application run automated script. ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.

Task 2 Analyze test log files and compare with baseline. See Jan20Test.log and TestBaseline.log. Test is considered failed if values in log and baseline files differ more than 10%. ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.

Task 3 After installation Installer shall place group of files into directory C:\windows (see file FileListing.info). Our task – verify that files are installed correctly and file sizes match expected ones. ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.

Task 4 We have directory structure with various files in all directories. We need to iterate directories looking for particular file(s). ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.

Task 5 There are two files containg some entries. We need to compare two files finding entries which are present in file1 and absent in file2. And other way round. ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.

Task 6 We need to programmatically remove directory three completely. Directories may contain files. ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.

Task 7 We need to create a SOAP client so we could test Web service -programmatically ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.

Task 8 We need to write an application which will validate XML against XMS Schema ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.

Task 9 We need to create a script which will periodically check if our Web site is up and running ©2009 by David Shtern, Ph.D.