1. Scripting for QA Engineers
David Shtern, Ph.D.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

11. Task 8
We need to write an application which will validate XML against XMS Schema
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12. 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.