Author: Zen and the Art of Computer Programming
1 Introduction
1.1 Background introduction
In the process of modern Internet application development, automated testing has become an essential work for developers. Traditional manual testing usually consumes a lot of time and is inefficient, while automated testing can effectively save labor costs and improve testing efficiency. Text-based automated testing method is an effective way to realize automated testing. As automated testing tools become more and more perfect, and test cases become more and more abundant, text-based automated testing is gradually widely used. However, due to the adoption of text-based test cases and the lack of a unified standard and tool system, various test scripts are confused to varying degrees, making it difficult to maintain, manage and expand. Therefore, how to develop a general text-based automated testing framework and solve many problems in it is particularly important.
1.2 Related concepts
Automated testing (English: Automation Testing) is a computer technology that can be used to verify that software or hardware meets its design requirements and provide feedback to users to find potential errors and vulnerabilities. There are two main forms: unit testing and integration testing.
Text-based automation testing (English: Text-based Automation Testing) refers to writing a highly readable script language, constructing test cases according to specified rules, and generating script programs to test software systems. It is characterized by the ability to quickly write, execute, manage and maintain automated tests without using a graphical interface. Text-based automated test scripts often have the characteristics of good readability, understandability, flexibility, adaptability and portability, and can better serve the entire software development life cycle.
Software testing (English: Software Testing) refers to a link in software engineering.