Developing Tests in Robot
What Is Rational Robot?
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For information about the Administrator and projects, see the Using the Rational
Administrator manual.
Developing Tests in Robot
You use Robot to develop two kinds of scripts: GUI scripts for functional testing and
sessions for performance testing.
Use Robot to:
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Perform full functional testing. Record and play back scripts that navigate
through your application and test the state of objects through verification points.
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Perform full performance testing. Use Robot and TestManager together to
record and play back sessions that help you determine whether a multi-client
system is performing within user-defined standards under varying loads.
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Create and edit scripts using the SQABasic and VU scripting environments.
The Robot editor provides color-coded commands with keyword Help for
powerful integrated programming during script development. (VU scripting is
used with sessions in performance testing.)
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Test applications developed with IDEs such as Java, HTML, Visual Basic,
Oracle Forms, Delphi, and PowerBuilder. You can test objects even if they are
not visible in the application's interface.
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Collect diagnostic information about an application during script playback.
Robot is integrated with Rational Purify
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, Rational Quantify
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, and Rational
PureCoverage
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. You can play back scripts under a diagnostic tool and see the
results in the log.
The Object-Oriented Recording
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technology in Robot lets you generate scripts by
simply running and using the application-under-test. Robot uses Object-Oriented
Recording to identify objects by their internal object names, not by screen
coordinates. If objects change locations or their text changes, Robot still finds them
on playback.
