Just Enough Software Test Automation

Data File Summary

To summarize, once the data have been created in the Excel spreadsheet, we convert it to an SQABasic sequential text file or a file suitable for your test tool environment. This is done for speed purposes and to simplify the test script code. These files can be further edited with a standard text editor such as Notepad, provided they do not become too large. You should build several different files, perhaps one for each major feature set to be tested. Each time you run the test, you can specify a different input file to use. Keep in mind that the input test data files can be built independently from the test scripts, provided that the control codes used in input data and the values used in the scripts that will act on those ...