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外文文献资料 2010年2月 Automated Testing and Test Tools Testing software is hard work. If youve done some testing on your own while reading this book, youve seen that the physical task of performing the tests can take a great deal of time and effort. Sure, you could spend more time equivalence partitioning your test cases, reducing the number that you run, but then you take on more risk because youre reducing coverage, choosing not to test important features. You need to test more, but you dont have the time. What can you do? The answer is to do what people have done for years in every other field and industrydevelop and use tools to make the job easier and more efficient. Thats what this chapter is all about. The Benefits of Automation and Tools Think back to what youve learned about how software is created. In most software development models, the code-test-fix loop can repeat several times before the software is released. If youre testing a particular feature, that means you may need to run your tests not once, but potentially dozens of times. Youll check that the bugs you found in previous test runs were indeed fixed and that no new bugs were introduced. This process of rerunning your tests is known as regression testing. If a small software project had several thousand test cases to run, there might be barely enough time to execute them just once. Running them numerous times might be impossible, let alone monotonous. Software test tools and automation can help solve this problem by providing a more efficient means to run your tests than by manual testing. The principal attributes of tools and automation are Speed. Think about how long it would take you to manually try a few thousand test cases for the Windows Calculator. You might average a test case every five seconds or so. Automation might be able to run 10, 100, even 1000 times that fast. Efficiency. While youre busy running test cases, you cant be doing anything else. If you have a test tool that reduces the time