The Research And Implementation Of An Automated Software Unit Test Tool In ATC System

Software testing which is an indispensable part in the life cycle of software plays an important role in improving the quality of software. With the development of software test technology, there is a great advance in the technology of automated software test. Many works have been done in the process of automated software test. Many commercial software test tools were developed for automated testing by software companies. This paper introduced the concept, technique and development trend of automated software test. It also summarized the characteristics of commercial automated software testing tools and pointed out the disadvantage of these tools on techniques and functions. These tools often created testing scripts by hard coding data and can't generate the testing data automatically so that the testing scripts can not be reused and maintained. That means when the project was changed, the original testing scripts can not run efficiently. This paper also analyzed the currently situation of software test in the ATC system and the necessity of automated software test in ATC system. Based on the research of the ATC system software test , author implemented a simple and practical test tool—AutomatedTest—with VC++V6 for the automated software unit test of C++ programs.Compared with the existing automated software test tools, the characteristics of...