Studying And Developing An Automated Software Testing Tool

The software test occupies the very important position in the whole development process of software. It is the key that keeping the quantity and improving the credibility of software. With the development of the software design, the increment of the software scale, the shorten of the software development life cycle, the augment of the workload of software test, it is the inevitable trend of the evolution of software test technology that using software test automation technique for improving the speeds and efficiencies of software test, shortening the software development life cycle, and reducing the cost of software test. Therefore, it is very valuable that developing an automated test tool which is effective, reusable, and maneuverable.Firstly, this thesis researches software test automation. It analyzes the difference between manual test and automated test and the general process of software test. It also identifies the advantage and disadvantage of automated test. Secondly, it analyzes the software test tools on the current market. Aiming at their disadvantage, it develops a fully automated testing tool whose name is AutomatedTest. The tool tests a complex software product thoroughly with minimum human interaction. It can identify to the software product under test automatically, generate test data automatically, generate test script automatically, invoke test script automatically and generate test result report automatically. Moreover, it still implements the separation of the test data and the test script. Thus, it raises the reusable rate of test script.At last, this thesis uses some examples for the characteristics of AutomatedTest.