QW2002 Paper 8T2 Thomas Arnold (Xtend Development, Inc.) Automating Testing on ASP.NET Applications

Key Points

• Microsoft's Tools for Testing ASP.NET
• Creating an Automated Script with ACT 1.0
• Beyond Basics: Load Tests, Cookie Management and more

Presentation Abstract

With the release of Microsoft .NET comes new questions and challenges in testing. How does one go about automating the testing within the .NET Realm?

In this presentation Tom Arnold will look at Microsoft ACT 1.0, a new automation tool that was released with Visual Studio .NET in February 2002. This tool is full featured, allows for functional testing as well as load testing, and best of all, it's free with Visual Studio .NET.

About the Author

Tom Arnold has been programming, managing and consulting on software development & test automation projects since 1991. In 1993, Tom co-founded Software Testing Laboratories (later renamed to ST Labs, and eventually purchased by Data Dimensions / LionBridge / Veritest), one of the software industry’s first outsourced software testing firms.

While at ST Labs, Tom added training & consulting to his repertoire when he began writing and teaching software test automation classes to Microsoft employees as he created ST Labs’ training group. Two years later, Arnold published the book, Software Testing with Visual Test 4.0. Shortly after his book’s publication, Tom managed the development team for Visual Test 4.0b for Microsoft Corporation; this version later became Rational Visual Test 4.0r.

Arnold continued to run software test automation projects, consult for companies looking to establish an approach to testing, and speak at industry conferences about effective uses and practical approaches to automated testing. Tom continued managing software development teams, including the programmers and test engineers that created Rational Visual Test 6.0 (released in November 1998). His 700-page book— Visual Test 6 Bible – and 10-tape (10-hour) training video series – VT6 InDepth—were both published in January 1999, winning a number of awards.

Tom’s current focus is on software project management, programming, test automation and writing about software development topics. Tom maintains an active role in the software industry and presents at such conferences as STAR (Software Testing Analysis & Review), Internet World, and RUC (Rational Users Conference). His Bachelors Degree in Computer Science comes from Purdue University.