Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform Project

Getting Started with TPTP's Manual Test Tools

Author: Paul Slauenwhite (paules@ca.ibm.com)
Last Updated: August 11, 2008

 

Getting Started with TPTP's Manual Test Tools

The following document provides the necessary information for getting started with the Manual Test Tools in TPTP.

Table of Contents:

1.0 Introduction
2.0 Installation
3.0 Documentation
4.0 Limitations

 

The Manual Test Tools are used to create, manage, and execute manual test suites for manually testing applications by human testers based on textual test descriptions.

 

1.     Extract the Manual Test Tools archive to the <Eclipse installation directory>/dropins directory.

2.     Start Eclipse with the -clean option.

3.     Regenerate the configuration file for the Integrated Agent Controller:

1.     Open the Integrated Agent Controller's preferences (Window > Preferences... > Agent Controller > Integrated Agent Controller).

2.     Stop the Integrated Agent Controller (Disable > Apply).

3.     Restart the Integrated Agent Controller (Enable > OK).

 

4.     For Manual Test execution using the Agent Controller:

1.     Copy the <Eclipse installation directory>/dropins/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.tptp.test.tools.manual_<version> plug-in to the <Agent Controller installation directory>/plugins/ directory.

2.     Regenerate the configuration file for the Agent Controller (see the Agent Controller documentation).

3.     Restart the Agent Controller (see the Agent Controller documentation).

 

For more information on how to use the Manual Test Tools, see the Manual Test Tools documentation in the TPTP workbench:

Help > Help Contents > Testing applications > Testing manually

For a flash tutorial on creating manual tests, watch Creating manual tests.

 

For other TPTP limitations, see the Release Notes for this TPTP release.

1. [Windows] Manual Test View requires Internet Explorer

When executing a manual test suite, the Manual Test View requires Internet Explorer v5 or above to be installed on the Windows host.

2. [Windows Vista] Manual test suite execution terminates abnormally when running the Agent Controller (AC) as a Widows Service

Bugzilla ID: 171416

The execution of a manual test suite terminates abnormally before the Manual Test View appears when running the Agent Controller (AC) as a Windows Service on the Windows Vista host.

This issue is caused by insufficient privileges to start the Manual Test View when running the Agent Controller (AC) as a Windows Service on the Windows Vista host.

To resolve this issue, execute the manual test suite when running the Agent Controller (AC) as an application on the Windows Vista host.

For more information, see Getting started with Agent Controller for Windows Vista.

3. [Windows 64-bit] Manual tests do not run on 64-bit Windows platforms

Bugzilla ID: 146102

The manual test agent requires a 64-bit version of the SWT libraries. These libraries are not currently packaged with the Agent Controller. If you need to enable manual testing on these platforms you can copy the SWT jar files from the 64-bit Eclipse workbench to the $TPTP_AC_HOME/bin directory.

4. [Linux] Manual Test View requires an installed and configured Web browser

When executing a manual test suite, the Manual Test View requires one of the follow Web browsers to be installed on the Linux host:

·                               Mozilla v1.4 GTK2 or above.

·                               Firefox v1.0 or above.

·                               XULRunner v1.8.0.1 or above.

Additionally, the installed Web browser must be configured by completing the following steps:

·                               Set the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable to the installation folder for the Web browser (for example, export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=<Web browser installation directory>).

·                               Set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable (for example, export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

5. [Linux] Intermittent SWT error when executing a manual test suite

Intermittently, the execution of a manual test suite terminates abnormally before the Manual Test View appears on the Linux host. The following SWT error is captured as a message event in the test log:

No more handles [gtk_init_check() failed]

This SWT error is caused by one of the following reasons:

·                               Connection failure to the X server.

·                               Insufficient memory for the Manual Test View process.

To resolve this issue, complete the following steps:

·                               Set the DISPLAY environment variable to the local host name or IP address (for example, export DISPLAY=<local host name or IP address>:0.0).

·                               Correct the host name and port number in /etc/hosts.

·                               Start the X server.

·                               Increase the file descriptor limit.