Dan Ye

Abstract: At first, the core ideology, advantage and principle of Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) are presented in this paper. Several automated testing frameworks are summarized and analyzed. In addition, date driven automation test framework is given more attention. Test script is the important composing part of software test automation. Then this paper introduces several technologies of script along with their characteristics. Every technology applies to different places. Moreover, an automated test system with an automated test script language XML which is implemented to solve the problems in current automatic testing solutions. The design and implantation of the test script automation framework based on apache ant is put forward. The proposed key technology details of framework are also introduced. We take the automation test methodology of database connectivity operations by ODBC data source as example for validation, using auto test script as the key technology. Finally, the results demonstrate that it can best increase software test effectiveness and reduce workloads as well as save more efforts.

Keywords: Software Automation Testing, Universal Test Script, XML, Data-Driven, Apache Ant

Cite this paper: nullD. Ye, "Automated Testing Framework for ODBC Driver," Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, Vol. 4 No. 12, 2011, pp. 688-699. doi: 10.4236/jsea.2011.412081.

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