We use STAF (not STAX) to automate testing of an iSCSI Storage Array.
The test environment uses multiple hosts that pound the test system with
data I/o requests and multiple processes that use Telnet and other
protocols to communicate with the Storage Array and establish the
configuration. We developed an app to make it easy to develop test
cases for different scenarios (e.g. different system configurations,
different data patterns, injection of errors, and others). The app is
written in Python, which proved to be quite efficient as a language for
this kind of program. We use services in STAF to interface between the
various processes, launch multiple processes on various hosts, keep a
unified log, share configuration variables among the processes, perform
some utility functions like ping, and file copies. Further, we create
our test cases using XML and use the STAF Namespace service to read it
and parse it. This has provided us with pretty fully automated test
capabilities for a complex system with lots of variables. The major
weakness has been in identifying the failures when they occur, which is
probably a weakness regardless of the tools.
The test system we've developed does a more thorough and accurate job of
testing the product than anything we had previously.
Eric Kadison
iStor Networks, Inc
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From: Isaachsen, Erin K. [mailto:erin.isaach...@gd-ais.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:18 AM
To: staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [staf-users] Who uses STAF/STAX?
Just trying to get a feel for who has recently been using
STAF/STAX for automating their testing and how it has worked out for
them. I have a fairly large application that takes as input real time
streams of data which are displayed according to operator input to the
GUI and we are looking for test automation solutions for it.
Erin K. Isaachsen
Lead Engineer, Software
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
703-263-7687
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