Programmable instruments, which allow creating and storing on-board programs for on-demand execution, have been available in some form for many years. Hardware and programming language improvements ...

Protocol analyzers, data generators, voice-over-IP (VoIP) testers, and other test equipment come with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Generally, a GUI is all you need to run many test applications, ...

Scripting is a powerful and convenient way to provide programmability for instruments in test and measurement applications. Script-based instruments provide architectural flexibility, improved ...

The instructions in a test program. It defines the actions and pass/fail criteria. For example, if the action is "to enter a valid account number," the expected ...

In a typical enterprise application, many areas require testing. Starting from the simplest components, classes, the developers or specialized test developers need to program unit tests to ensure that ...

This post follows up on Part 1 by examining the many ways that you can test the value of variables – e.g., whether they equal particular strings like “yes” or “no”, if they have a numeric value, if ...

All QA professionals know the difference between a test script and a test case and the overlap between them, but few have the patience to analyze each. It can speed up testing and make tests more ...