[Dev] Script for screencast

[Frank Cohen]

I'm planning to record a screencast to show TestMaker 4 users the  
changes and improvements in TestMaker 5. Below is the draft script  
that I came up with. Feel free to comment and offer changes and  
improvements. I am also thinking that this script will become part of  
the tutorial documents that come with TestMaker 5. -Frank

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Welcome To The PushToTest TestMaker Version 5 Screencast. I am Frank  
Cohen, the founder and CEO of PushToTest.

PushToTest TestMaker is a platform for Service Oriented Architecture  
(SOA), Web service, and Web application governance and test  
automation. PushToTest TestMaker 5 delivers ease-of-use improvements  
and powerful root cause analysis and remediation solutions.

This screencast is for existing TestMaker users to explain the new  
features and changes.

First of all, you should know that TM 5 is backwardly compatible to  
TM4 scripts (show running the soap example script.) We also fixed  
several-long standing issues from TM 4, including the jCookie problem  
with international non-top-level domains. By the way, we have a new  
bug tracking service at bugs.pushtotest.com. (show it)

We were very happy to get InfoWorld's Excellent (8.7) rating on TM 4,  
(show it.) We often hear how powerful TM is and that power comes with  
a learning curve. We responded by focusing our efforts on making TM 5  
easier-of-use and increasing its power.

We made TM5 easier in 3 ways:

First, TM 5 integrates TestGen4Web (show it)  TestGen4Web is a plug- 
in to Firefox from our friends at Spikesource. The plug-in makes it  
easy to visually record unit tests of a Web application. TM5 turns  
these unit tests into functional tests, load tests, and service  
monitors.

For those of you that are unable to use Firefox, TM5 continues its  
support for the network Proxy Recorder system that watches you use  
Microsoft Internet Explorer or your desktop applications and writes a  
unit test script for you. (Click the New Agent icon to see these  
options.)

A second way we made TM5 easier is in our expanded support for  
languages. TestMaker 4 supports writing tests in Java and Jython.  
Jython is a 100% Java implementation of the Python language. Three  
years ago we began our effort to bring scripting for test creation on  
the Java platform to the world. TM is now the biggest distribution of  
the Jython scripting language. Our efforts have paid off, for example  
Java 6 now supports many dynamic scripting languages, AND NOW, so  
does TestMaker. In TestMaker 5 you may write tests in Java, JRuby,  
Groovy, Python, Rhino (JavaScript), Perl, PHP, and many others.

The third way we made TM easier to use is in the area of Web service  
testing. TM is a popular platform to test Web Services. TM 5  
integrates soapUI. (show it)

In summary we made TM5 easier-to-use by integrating TestGen4Web, by  
supporting many dynamic scripting languages, and by integrating  
soapUI. Next lets talk about the ways we made TM5 more powerful.

We made TM5 more powerful in 3 ways:

First, we integrated the TestNetwork environment. We previously sold  
TestNetwork as a commercial add-on into TM5. TestNetwork is now part  
of the free TM5 codebase.

TestNetwork operates TM5 tests in a distributed test environment. We  
call them TestNodes, they are free standing Web service-based  
environments that run TM5 tests. (show the architecture drawing in  
Firefox) There are 3 popular configurations of TestNodes.

First, on a software developer's local machine, a local instance of a  
TestNode operates functional, load tests, and service monitors. (Show  
TM5 Preferences) By default a TestNode starts on your local machine  
when TestMaker starts.

(Back to drawing) Second, in a QA setting, install a TestNode on each  
server in a rack of servers in a QA lab to conduct load testing.

Third, in an IT setting, install TestNodes at various locations  
around your network to prove Service Level Agreements by monitoring  
your services.

There are two additional ways we made TM5 more powerful.

TM5 introduces and supports a new XML-based TestScenario system to  
automatically turn unit tests into function tests, load tests, and  
service monitors without any additional effort. The lower left panel  
in TM5 is the new Controller system to graphically operate  
TestScenarios.

(Open load test 2, and describe the controller controls. Then show  
the already run load test 1 and point out the controls.) Controller  
features: buttons to start/stop/pause/edit/expand/and close a  
TestScenario, the slider show progress as a test operates and enables  
you to change the order of a test as it runs, scalability index  
charts, transaction distribution charts, and resource monitoring  
charts appear in the controller panel.

TestScenario's are the way in TM5 to define load tests, functional,  
and service monitors. In TM4 the XSTest package turned unit tests  
into scalability tests. XSTest is now part of the TestScenario  
system. TestScenarios are XML documents to provide all the operating  
instructions necessary to run a load test, a functional test, and a  
service monitor. See the other screencasts and documentation on the  
PushToTest Web site to better understand TestScenarios. They are  
wonderfully powerful.

Lastly, TM5 introduces powerful new features to do root cause  
analysis and mitigation. One way TM5 does this is by providing an  
integrated resource monitor to watch cpu, network, memory utilization  
as tests operate. By default a Monitor starts on your local machine  
when TM starts. Show Preferences. The monitor provides root-cause  
analysis and remediation to determine where and why bottlenecks to  
good performance exist.

Thank you for watching this screencast. We showed a summary of the  
new features and changes TestMaker users may expect in PushToTest  
TestMaker version 5.

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Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 374 7426
TestMaker: The open-source SOA governance and test automation tool






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Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 374 7426
TestMaker: The open-source SOA test automation tool