black-box test tool

[Danny Faught]

I've often talked about the difference between my black-box test 
experience and the unit testing context that most of you are working in. 
 I've come across an interesting example of an open source black-box 
tool - QMTest, http://www.codesourcery.com/qm/qmtest.

QMTest has all the basic black box functional testing features that I'd 
expect - expected output specified for stdout and stderr, verifying the 
exit code of the test process, resource setup and teardown, expected 
results, etc.  Its gui is provided by a local web server, and it also 
has a command line interface.

I haven't looked at it enough to say whether I recommend the tool or 
not, but it is a concrete example of the type of tool I like to use as a 
functional tester.

Too bad it's written in Python.  :-(  It has a test class that can 
directly call Python code fragments.  It wouldn't surprise me if someone 
written a test class for Perl.
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Danny R. Faught
Tejas Software Consulting
publisher of Open Testware Reviews -
  http://tejasconsulting.com/open-testware/