Re: Test automation using perl or shell

[Jim Gibson]

On Sep 10, 2013, at 1:25 AM, Lalit Deshmukh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i have implemented 50 shell program to test. now i want to run all these 
> shell program one by one(in short test automation) (once first program 
> getting executed then next will start). please let me know how to do this? in 
> UNIX any utility or to run the same. 

The are several ways to run a shell program from Perl:

1. Use the system function. This will fork a process and run (exec) the shell 
program in that process. Standard output from the program will go to your 
standard output. The system call will return the exit status from the program 
as part of its return value. See 'perldoc -f system' for details.

2. Use the qx() operator or backticks (e.g., `program`). This will also result 
in a fork and exec, but the standard output from the program will be captured 
and returned to your program. See 'perldoc perlop' and search for "Quote-like 
Operators" or "qx/STRING/".

3. Use the open() function with a MODE of "|-" or "-|". In this case, you can 
either pipe input to the program with mode "|-" or receive output from the 
program with "-|". There are more complicated ways to do both. See 'perldoc -f 
open' for details. 

See also 'perldoc perlipc' for more suggestions on inter-process communication.


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Re: Test automation using perl or shell

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:25:22AM -0700, Lalit Deshmukh wrote:
> i have implemented 50 shell program to test. now i want to run all these
> shell program one by one(in short test automation) (once first program
> getting executed then next will start). please let me know how to do this?
> in UNIX any utility or to run the same.

If you have loops in your shell:
(bash example, assumes the test programs are named t1.sh, t2.sh ... t50.sh)

for TEST in  t*sh
do  ./$TEST
done

in Perl, call with names of the test programs. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

foreach my $test (@ARGV) {
system "./$test";
}

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Re: Test automation using perl or shell

[Shekar]

Hello Lalit,

This question sounds more nearer to Shell scripting than Perl. No offence,
you can do this in Perl too, but since underlaying test scripts are shell
based (which you mentioned as 'i have implemented 50 shell program to test'
), i would suggest you to write a wrapper shell script which calls rest of
the 50 shell programs to execute and record the results.


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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Lalit Deshmukh  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i have implemented 50 shell program to test. now i want to run all these
> shell program one by one(in short test automation) (once first program
> getting executed then next will start). please let me know how to do this?
> in UNIX any utility or to run the same.
>
>
> any help will be really appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Lalit D
>

Test automation using perl or shell

[Lalit Deshmukh]

Hi,

i have implemented 50 shell program to test. now i want to run all these
shell program one by one(in short test automation) (once first program
getting executed then next will start). please let me know how to do this?
in UNIX any utility or to run the same.


any help will be really appreciated.

thanks,
Lalit D

Re: Test Automation

[Dave Storrs]

Check CPAN for:

Test::Unit
Test::Simple
Test::More

and a few others.

Dave


On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Ahmed Moustafa Ibrahim Ahmed wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
>
> How can I automate the process of testing my Perl script?
> Is there a standard way to do?
> Is there a tool for testing Perl scripts?
>
> Your help will be appreciated so much.
>
> Ahmed
>
>


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Test Automation

[Ahmed Moustafa Ibrahim Ahmed]

Hi Everybody,

How can I automate the process of testing my Perl script?
Is there a standard way to do?
Is there a tool for testing Perl scripts?

Your help will be appreciated so much.

Ahmed


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