Computer Aided Software Testing(CAST)

CAST TOOLS

The acronym stands for "computer Aided software Testing". There are some tools which assist the
testing process

There are various types of CAST tools, some of these are as under:

1. Requirements testing tools support for verification and validation of requirements models

2. Static analysis tools Provide information about the quality of software
and Code is examined, not executed.

3. Test design tools Generate test inputs from a formal specification or CASE repository.

4. Test data preparation tools Data manipulation,selected from existing databases or files,
created according to some rules and edited from other sources.

5. GUI test tool use to test the User interface of the system. for example: selenimum, HP winRunner.

6. Performance test tools simulates realistic load on the system & logs the number of transactions
and response times for selected transactions via user interface.for example Load Runner

7. Dynamic analysis tools Provide run-time information on software (while tests are run)
allocation, use and de-allocation of resources, e.g. memory leaks

8. Debugging tools Used by programmers when investigating, fixing and testing faults.
It is use to find cause of failures.

9. Comparison tools compares the actual results with the expected results.

10. Test management tools does management of test ware, test process, incident managment tool
and traceability

11. Coverage measurement tools Objective measure of what parts of the software structure was executed by tests. Tool reports what has and has not been covered by those tests, line by line and summary statistics.