Re: [Firebird-test] Using dejagnu to test the limit command

[Mark O'D. <mar...@lu...>]

John Bellardo wrote:

> On Sunday, July 29, 2001, at 10:27 AM, Mark O'Donohue wrote:
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>> Hi
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> Are you proposing switching all tests to dejagnu starting with LIMIT, 
> or using the LIMIT tests to experiment with dejagnu to determine if we 
> want to move all our tests over?  

I was thinking of using dejagnu (or more particularly expect) to do the 
main driving, it has some wonderful terminal driving capabilities, and 
it has been around quite a while.

Actually just looking at http://expect.nist.gov - there are links to two 
windows ports one cygwin and one native.

But it is a supurb tool every bit as good as what i've seen in 
LoadRunner scripting language.  It's not windows based scripting (which 
is a dog anyway) but then neither is sql.

> Either way I'm sure it would work out better than TCS.

That I think is a certainty, at at least with cygwin the whole dejagnu 
thing can be run.  expect runs the process and it's up to the expect 
script to recognise a successful outcome and write "SUCCESS: test104" 
which is then used in the dejagnu package to workout what passed and 
failed - pretty simple stuff.

As I wrote previously,

$autoexpect

also works like a macro recorder.


Cheers

Mark

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