[ptt-users] TestMaker 5 completion specification

[Frank Cohen]

Hi Kyle: Thanks for the feedback. See below. -Frank
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On Nov 27, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Kyle Bell wrote:

> Frank,
>
> Nice feature list.  I especially appreciate the first new feature idea
> by Bongos Amigos.  I've not spent any time finding a good use for  
> those
> generated XML files and this would make them immediately useful...

Attached is an example TestScenario XML file. I'd love feedback on it.

> Another enhancement or bug as it may be seen that I'd like to see
> addressed is the ability to kill a running TestCase from the TestMaker
> IDE which is not being controlled by XSTest.  If a test case is  
> running
> within the browser (perhaps it was written to run in an infinite loop
> correctly or by accident), I've not found a way to kill this running
> process as the "stop the agent" button appears not to be effective.

Interesting. When you click the stop button TestMaker kills the  
thread running the script. That's not a very nice way to do it, but  
it's something necessary. I suppose another way would be to have a  
signal to the running test case to stop. I'll give this some thought.  
Thanks for making me aware of the problem.



> Also, could I get you to make a small change to your ANT script which
> packages your distribution?  I had previously suggested (and you
> implemented) a change to make the permissions 755 on TestMaker.sh when
> you perform your packaging.  Could I talk you into doing the same with
> TestMaker.bat?  I also run TestMaker in some Windows systems and I  
> find
> myself doing this within a cygwin environment as well.  Cygwin  
> requires
> executable permissions on batch files for execution purposes and this
> would prevent the step of changing permissions for other TestMaker  
> users
> running in this environment.

I'm ok with making that change.

Maybe you can help me with a different problem. The way the build.xml  
script is written now, the .sh files are correctly set with the 755  
permissions, but the resulting Zip file has two copies of the .sh  
files. It's totally weird to me to see WinZip on Windows ask if it  
can overwrite the .sh files. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?


>
> Since you included my suggestion for a SIP UAC/UAS I now wish I had
> edited it a little more closely...  :o)  I'm unsure how you plan to
> implement this feature in a single day (I rather thought there was  
> more
> than a days work there) but kudos if you can accomplish it.  I'll be
> working this week on a piece of code to handle new connection requests
> on a UAS.  If you are interested in the code once I get it polished,
> I'll happily hand it over.  I borrowed the design idea from Simon
> Foster's "Forwarding and Redirecting Network Ports" section 13.13  
> of the
> "Python Cookbook", O'Reilly publishing.

All the days are just estimates right now. I'm meeting with the  
engineers this week to get their estimate. Please send me the code  
you create. I'd love to see your approach.

>
> In the future, you may also use your recorder on SIP messaging by
> redirecting your instant messenger to TestMaker as a proxy.  This  
> kinda
> opens up a whole new realm of possibilities here as well...

Totally agree with you on this. The proxy would easily extended to  
record SIP sessions and create test cases.

>
> Thanks for the terrific work, Frank.  If I come up with more  
> commentary,
> I'll pass it along.
>
> -Kyle
>
>
> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 17:08 -0800, Frank Cohen wrote:
>> Work on TestMaker 5 continues. I wrote up a specification of the
>> remaining projects to complete. I expect PushToTest will fund the
>> development of the projects in this specification. I would love to
>> hear your feedback, suggestions, and prioritization.
>>
>> Download the TestMaker 5 completion specification document at:
>> http://downloads.pushtotest.com/tm5/TM5_Specification.pdf
>>
>> The document is 444K in Adobe Acrobat format. Please post your
>> feedback to this list.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Frank
>>
>> --
>> Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 374  
>> 7426
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