topic Re: Green Screen Testing Automation in Operating System - OpenVMS

Green Screen Testing Automation

Gerrie JvR — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:55:07 GMT

We do green screen testing and are looking for ways to automate the testing/keystrokes. We use a thin client called Emterm and the operating system is OpenVMS. The closest we have come to automation is copy and past from a Word document. The problem with this is obviously that when there is a error you need mannually go and find the error.

Could we use VBA/Excel to automate the testing or should we rather find a tool that can help us automate our testing and if so can any one suggest a tool that we can use?

Thank you

Re: Green Screen Testing Automation

Volker Halle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:02:55 GMT

Gerrie,

welcome to the OpenVMS ITRC forum.

For this purpose, there is an OpenVMS tool called DTM (DEC Test Manager), which is part of DECset.

Pointer to DECset page at HP:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/commercial/decset/decset_index.html

Volker.

Re: Green Screen Testing Automation

Gerrie JvR — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:39:47 GMT

Thank you for the assistance. We will look into this tool.

Re: Green Screen Testing Automation

B Claremont — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:02:34 GMT

If I my toot my own horn, we use DTM extensively for regression testing Migration RPG, CBL, FreeAXP, and Avanti. It is an excellent tool and I highly recommend it. We also offer services to help you set it up and create regression test suites.

Bruce C.
www.migrationspecialties.com

Re: Green Screen Testing Automation

Gerrie JvR — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:11:04 GMT

Hi,

Just one question. Does DECset work on the new Itanium platform?

Thanks
Gerrie

Re: Green Screen Testing Automation

Steven Schweda — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:44:46 GMT

> Does DECset work on the new Itanium
> platform?

Seems to.

IT $ dtm show version
Digital Test Manager Version V4.4-1

IT $ tcpip show version

HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Version V5.6 - ECO 4
on an HP zx2000 (1.50GHz/6.0MB) running OpenVMS V8.3-1H1

There even seems to be a fresh kit to
download:

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/layered_products/i64/DECSET128ECO2_I64.EXE
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/layered_products/i64/DECSET128ECO2_I64.txt

Re: Green Screen Testing Automation

Steven Schweda — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:17:16 GMT

> There even seems to be a fresh kit to
> download:

Assembled, apparently, by fresh "experts".
The UnZipSFX image used to create the kit
has advanced from
UnZipSFX 5.42 of 14 January 2001
used to make the ECO1 kit, all the way up to
UnZipSFX 5.51 of 22 May 2004
thus still deftly avoiding the I/O speed
improvements found since UnZip 5.52 ("UnZip
5.52 of 28 February 2005 [...]".)

Ignoring the annoyance of having to double
unpack a Zip-compressed BACKUP save set
(where "zip -V" would have been adequate on
its own), the result is a set of curiously
named files, too:
DECSET128ECO2.A, et al.
hence:

[...]
The following products will be processed:

DECSET128E V0.2
[...]

Nice quality control. (The quality is under
such tight control that hardly any of it
escapes?) Sigh. Apparently the oral
tradition has been broken, and the children
haven't noticed.

Re: Green Screen Testing Automation

B Claremont — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:16:31 GMT

Sorry to be late. We use DTM on Itanium under VMS 8.2 and 8.3. Our test suites ported from Alpha with very little modification.

Re: Green Screen Testing Automation

Andy Bustamante — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:26:35 GMT

Another option is to use Kermit and script your testing. http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/

Re: Green Screen Testing Automation

Gerrie JvR — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:24:54 GMT

Thanks for all the advice it certainly provides with us with some option to investigate and I am sure will make our lives easier.