A customer asked me about this, and I believe this request is based on the availability of tools to test web apps in an automated and pre-scripted fashion.
Subject: Does anyone know of software that lets you run test scripts on a Notes client app?
http://www-svca.mercuryinteractive.com/products/testing/
cheers
Stevan Bajic
Subject: Have you used this software yourself against a Notes app?
Subject: RE: Does anyone know of software that lets you run test scripts on a Notes client app?
I worked for Mercury for 3 years, and WinRunner wouldn’t talk to the GUI of Notes R4 & R5 correctly (too many custom objects, mind I’ve not tested this with R6, but would suspect same problems).
For WR to work with Notes clients correctly you would need an intergration from Mercury Interactive, but last I heard they have not written one. You can ‘talk’ to some objects in the GUI and there was an ‘analog’ mode which meant that instead of a click button event being recorded correctly, it would record a mouse button press and the screen co-ordinates, which will work fine untill you update the screen location of a button. Fine for soak testing, but not for regression testing, where the screen layout of the app might change. You can test WEB apps with WR, but if you want to test native Notes clients, you might have some ‘fun and games’. Talk to Mercury and get them to do a proof of concept on your actual set-up, before you buy.
Hope this helps,
Neil