TestFactory Features
Introduction
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TestFactory is integrated with the following Rational Suite TestStudio
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components:
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Rational Robot
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Rational TestManager
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Rational Administrator
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Rational ClearQuest
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Rational TestCodeChanges add-in for Visual Studio
Together, these products provide a full array of tools for team testing within
Windows
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NT
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, Windows 95
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, Windows 98
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, and Windows 2000
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environments.
TestFactory offers the following features:
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Automatically creates and maintains a detailed map of controls and actions in the
user interface of the application-under-test.
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Lets you map and test multiple paths in a functional area of an application.
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Automatically generates scripts that provide maximized product coverage.
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Tracks executed and unexecuted source code and reports its findings.
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Automatically generates regression Test Suites containing scripts that uncover
serious defects in the application-under-test.
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Simplifies maintenance of test assets, which means that testing new builds
requires minimal supervision.
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Lets you organize scripts into Test Suites and run them as batch jobs.
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Lets you compose scripts that simulate user action sequences to increase the
validity of your test assets.
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Provides code coverage data for Robot-recorded scripts, which you can include
in TestFactory Test Suites.
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Together with the TestCodeChanges add-in for Visual Studio, lets you run
scripts that test changed source code files from within the Visual Basic or
Visual C++ development environment.
