[Wtr-general] What are people using for 'test executive'?

[Paul Rogers]

Ive been struggling with this type of thing too. At the upcoming awta 
conference Im going to demo an app that Ive wriiten for one of my clients 
that does most of this.

Im struggling with the concept of it though - I think I would rather just 
write ruby code. But I can appreciate why others in the group ( project 
managers etc ) would want to see results in some simple format.

Im thinking of writing something similar as an open source project, but Im 
very time constrained  at the moment.

What Im finding is a bigger problem, but may be addressed by something like 
the tool I mention, is how to deal with the vast quantities of data that we 
use in our tests, and the relationships between the different data items.

If there is enough interest maybe we should start a new rubyforge project to 
deal with it, rather than use this list.

Paul




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan" <forum-watir-users at openqa.org>
To: <wtr-general at rubyforge.org>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] What are people using for 'test executive'?


> There is sadly no test executive at this time.  We use Window's Scheduled 
> Task tool to set up tests, and we just try and keep track of the results, 
> mostly by email when something critical happens.  I'm positive also that 
> existing commercial tools are being used by others as we are using them - 
> We use Mercury Quality Center, since we bought it, to schedule our ruby 
> tests as well as our Quick Test Pro tests, but even that is just an 
> interface for Windows Scheduled Tasks tool.
>
> So I don't think there is anything.  But really just set up some good 
> logging or use Watir's built in logging, set up IIS if you want to send 
> emails when critical failures happen or any failures for that matter, but 
> you might be spammed, so maybe think twice about that.  I can help you get 
> the email thing going too if you want.  We just implemented a threshold 
> mechanism for when we see error pages on our site (which can happen often 
> due to high traffic and database timeouts).
>
> Otherwise a group I'm associated with is beginning to write an open source 
> enterprise Ruby Rails interface for launching Watir scripts remotely but 
> we've only begun and it may take up to a year before we have anything 
> solid.
>
> Nathan
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