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Testing Testing MethodsUsing GUI-based Automated Test Tools to Test Legacy Applications
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Published: 18th Aug 2005 |
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Add CommentFiled in: Testing MethodsUsing GUI-based Automated Test Tools to Test Legacy Applications: A great many companies today are currently running numerous legacy (character-based or "green screen") applications on a variety of platforms (Mainframe, AS/400, Tandem, Stratus, etc.). Furthermore, there is an increasing trend toward integrating these systems with front-end GUI, Internet, and Intranet applications, and using the Mainframe and AS/400 type computers for back office processing. Some companies are using AS/400s as Internet and Network servers. Most companies are opting to access their Mainframe (etc.) computers via Terminal Emulation from PC Workstations, rather than use "dumb terminals".
Many of these companies desire to automated their testing processes, but find the selection of a test tool that will meet all of their testing requirements difficult, at best. One tool may be better at testing legacy applications, while another is better at testing GUI applications, and still another is better at testing Internet/Intranet applications. What is sought is a tool or suite of tools that can be used to automate testing across the enterprise, as the prospect of training Q/A and technical staff in the use of several different tools from different manufacturers is daunting, if not completely unrealistic.
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