Tool Mentor:
Viewing Logs and Evaluating the Execute Test Suite Using the Rational TestManager
Purpose
This tool mentor describes how to use Rational TestManager, Rational Robot
and Rational TestFactory to analyze automatically generated Test Scripts that
uncovered errors.
Related Rational Unified Process information:
Overview
This tool mentor is applicable when running Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4.0.
To use Rational TestFactory, Rational Robot, and Rational TestManager to analyze the
automatically generated test scripts, do one or both of the following:
As described in Tool Mentor: Implementing Generating
Test Scripts Using Rational Test Factory, a Pilot is the Rational TestFactory
tool that automatically generates Test Script. For each defect it encounters
while it is running, a Pilot generates a “defect script,” which contains
the Test Script statements that cause the defect to occur.
When a Pilot finds defects during the run, the Test Script that uncovered defects
are located in a separate “Defects Found” subfolder under the run
folder. You can use Rational TestManager to view the run log for the Test Script
that uncovered defects.
 Refer
to the View the log for a script run topic in Rational TestFactory online
Help.
During Test Script generation, a Pilot can encounter an “unexpected active
window” (UAW)—a window that reflects an inconsistency between the
UI objects in the application map and the controls in the application-under-test
(AUT). One of two conditions can cause the Pilot to encounter an unexpected
active window:
- The AUT contains a window for which there is no corresponding UI object in the
application map. A typical example of this condition is a message window that is not
uncovered during mapping.
- A UI object in the application map represents a window that is no longer in the AUT.
Whenever it encounters an unexpected active window, the Pilot generates a “UAW
script” and places it in the Pilot run folder. You can play back a UAW script in
Rational Robot, and then use Robot and Rational TestManager to determine the cause of the
unexpected active window. After you resolve the cause in Rational TestFactory, subsequent
Pilot runs will not encounter the unexpected active window.
Refer
to the following topics in Rational TestFactory online Help:
- Find the cause of an unexpected active window
- Resolve an unexpected active window
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