Testing System

Based on Padre I would like to add all kinds of tools that will make it easy to generate test scripts without knowing any programming.

Some kind of GUI to record/replay test cases that can later be extended using perl.

Areas to cover

Perl has tons of modules on CPAN that can be used to access various external system and thus to test them. As a start we would like to provide GUI elements to make the startup of this testing easy.

• Net::Telnet - record/replay a telnet session, generate telnet script?
• SSH - record/replay ssh session
• WWW::Mechanize, Selenium - web automation
• Win32::GuiTest - Windows GUI automation

Existing Padre plugins

They are all in very early development stage

• Padre::Pluging::GUITest
• Padre::Plugin::HTTPRecordReplay ??

Materials to read

• Keyword Driven Testing

Proprietary Competition

• IBM Rational Robot
• HP (Mercury) WinRunner or QTP (Quick Test Professiona)
• TestShell
• AutoIT
• ??