Automated testing

[Rob Cozens]

Richard, et al:

> Do any of you do automated testing?  If so, what do you test and how?
>

The SDB Test Client stack that ships with Serendipity Library has an 
automated testing mode, where SDB database commands are called at 
random and a log of the last 25 calls and their results is maintained.  
Before releasing a major change to SDB, I run automated testing in 
single user mode for 24 hours, server & one client for 24 hours, and 
then server and multiple clients for at least another 24 hours.

I have mentioned before that automated testing led me to a bug that 
would have been very hard to find otherwise:

	Command A could be called all day with no problem
	Command B could be called all day with no problem -- so long has 
Command A had not been called.
	Once Command A was called, the next time Command B was called the 
system crashed.

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company

"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)