
CAPBAK/MSW, part of the TestWorks/Regression suite
of automated software testing tools, captures user
activities during the testing process including
keystrokes, mouse movements, captured ASCII
characters and captured bitmap images, and records
them as C-language procedures.
A C-language
interpreter plays back all recorded events and
actions. CAPBAK/MSW's multiple synchronization
modes ensure reliable playback, allowing tests
to be run unsupervised as often as required.
The captured images provide baselines against which
response images of future test reruns are
automatically compared, with results written to a log
file. Tests which have FAILed are quickly identified in
the log file.
To verify tests have successfully played back,
CAPBAK/MSW's CBVIEW utility displays test session
captured images. Tests can be further verified with
the CBDIFF utility which differences baseline and
response file images. A masking capability allows
CBDIFF to ignore user-specified areas of the image
file during the differencing process.
Used with its TestWorks/Regression companion tool,
SMARTS/MSW, tests are organized in a hierarchical
structure for execution individually or as a part of a
test suite. The results can then be evaluated using
CBDIFF. Following test execution, SMARTS/MSW logs
test statistics and PASS/FAIL results into reports.
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