Released on = August 15, 2007, 7:31 am

Press Release Author = Abhinav Vaid/ IndyaCellular

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = The Project is about sharing insights into Test Automation,
which is for the benefit of Test Engineering community which is yet to mature. There
are wizard driven tools available in the market, which Organizations buy but later
regret when they cannot justify the Return on Investment. Even the project\'s
completeness and acceptability remains challenged. Its taken some of the most
popular tools and automated a couple of tests. Later, it has automated the same
tests using free-ware tools and/or differnt scripting languages and technologies. So
at the end, its an automation project implemented using 13 different
programming/languages and the later has been towards sharing technical expertise and
insights to build test suites using minimal (if not zero) cost implication.

Press Release Body = Building Automated Test Systems for Microsoft Windows is a book
along with Surce code released under open source license. Available for download
from www.IndyaCellular.in

Nothing Cellular about it.

Indian-ness Of Course is.

Background of Automation Tools: Mostly (if not all) Test Tools available in the
market today are based on Record & Play, which is easier said or done. The
Organizations worldwide have been spending so much on the Test Tools and later
regret when they are not been able to justify the ROI. The objective remains to
explore/make the engineers realize, what goes behind those fancy tools and to what
extent that helps/doesn't help.

The book has taken standard test sutes (the most common office apps) and practically
demonstrated test plans automated with varied combinations of automation.

1. Using 3 most popular commercially available test tools along with live
implementations, and shortcomings associated.

2. Later part is automating the same test suite using 10 different
scripting/programming languages, which are mostly free or minimal cost implications.

13 different implementations to automate testing of Microsoft Office/Calculator/....
and so on. Point wise details are:

Automation Tools:
Winrunner
QuickMacros
QA Run

Building Test Automation Infrastructure/tool to Project
OLE Automation:
Using VBS for Automation
Using Perl for Automation
Using JS for Automation
Using TCL-TK for Automation
Using Winbatch for Automation

All the above has been done using OLE implementation and scripting language as the
front end to write code.
WSH:
Perl/Active Perl
Vbs

Web Site = http://www.indyacellular.in

Contact Details = Abhinav Vaid, E-5, 68-B, Shatabdi Vihar, Sector 52 Noida 201301