Microsoft releases Spec Explorer 2010 application test tool
Microsoft have been looking at the question of quality assurance and this week is presenting a tool uses techniques used in capacity planning and performance modelling.The Spec Explorer 2010 tool, funnily enough known as Spec Explorer, can be obtained from the Microsoft DevLabs website.
High quality testing of systems and applications is one of the prime challenges in the application development process. The Spec Explorer tool issued recently on DevLabs tackles that problem using model-based testing techniques.
Spec Explorer models the behaviour of application code and using the output to produce functional testing steps from those models. These models can be seen graphically to understand application behavior. These test suites can run standalone or in the Visual Studio or other unit test frameworks. A modelling background is not required before users can build models with Spec Explorer.
Models are written in C# and accompanied by configuration files in a scripting language called Cord.