SBTAR : an enhancing method for automate software test tools

Abstract

Software testing is an important process to improve the quality of software in software development. Thus, many automation tools are created to help testing functionality of software. However, some usability issues of these tools have to be considered. One is that result logs which are generated from tools generally contain useless information. Therefore, testers cannot effectively use these logs; another issue is that all logs are not flexible to use since they need to open with a specific application. In order to eliminate these limitations from the test tools, this thesis proposes a new method, SBTAR, to improve the usability of automated test tools in a part of the result logs. Based on a tool named as IBM Rational Robot, some additional features are proposed. The first feature helps testers to manage all test objects where these objects are stored in a centralized database by adding, moving or deleting the objects’ properties, test conditions, and error messages that will be recorded into the result log. The second feature generates report that contains useful information. Moreover, this result log also increases flexibility by Microsoft Word or WordPad to make them readable. Thus, the defects of the tested programs can be identified easily.