TestPartner

What is TestPartner? An Introduction

TestPartner is an automated testing tool that is used for the functional testing of complex applications developed with Microsoft, Java, Web, SAP, Oracle and many other distributed technologies. TestPartner is a Record and Playback tool with advanced features to create your own scripts if you prefer rather than recording. TestPartner Playbacks your exact Scripted or recorded actions again and again in order to verify if your application worked as expected.

If you are a business analyst and /or have low scripting experience TestPartner Provides a powerful keyword driven framework where you can embed you test logic using GUI features – The Visual Tests.

TestPartner also provides following features:

· Enhanced Debugger
· Active Data - For data driven scripts .i.e. parameterize your scripts to use custom generated data.
· Events – This is the most powerful feature of the tool which allows the end user to trigger an action upon some predecessor actions happening.
· In built Checks - To validate the functionality of your application.
· User Forms – Also called Driver Forms in the Test Partner developer community. You can design your own user interface to kick start your scripts. The User forms allow all the standards and custom controls to be inserted on your GUI.

Since TestPartner uses uses Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) as its scripting language. The power of complier based language is at your stake. Since VBA is the most easy to learn language hence learning TestPartner is piece of cake.

If you application undergoes lot of changes every day and in turn you have to maintain multiple version of your scripts then TestPartner allows you to maintain multiple versions of your scripts.

There are times when there are lots of custom controls in your Application under Test (AUT), how do you script for these controls? Well TestPartner is the key then. Advance TestPartner users can find out the dlls used in your application and provide the reference in the tool. Providing reference of the dlls exposes the internals of your AUT to you so that you can take the advantage of the application itself to test the application!!!


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