What is Robot Army Testing? Where is it used? How can I learn it?
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This term is not on WikiPedia. Everything, that is at least a little popular technology appears there quickly. Are you sure you don't misspell it?
FractalizeR
2009-10-30 12:18:16
Are you saying if it's not in Wikipedia it cannot exist???
APC
2009-10-30 12:20:19
It can. But being at least a little popular, I will no doubt appear on WikiPedia quickly enough.
FractalizeR
2009-10-30 12:30:05
But only until it gets deleted for being 'not notable' by the deletion brigade.
Nick Johnson
2009-10-30 12:31:05
I doubt they delete useful things from it. And if it is useful, soon after deletion it will reappear. If it will be deleted again, someone will open a debate. And this will end up in either adding it to pedia, or dropping it as having no a right to exist ;)
FractalizeR
2009-10-30 12:38:59
I thought it was "if it's not on google, it doesn't exist".
Stefano Borini
2009-10-30 15:54:28
;) No, I am not that stupid... ;)
FractalizeR
2009-10-31 19:25:00
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I'm not sure that it exists. There's Rational Robot, an automated testing record-and-playback tool, but you have to buy it. I've yet to hear of Robot Army testing, however, although I agree with Nick - it sounds AWESOME :)
The only mention I can find of it ANYWHERE is on:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07756.html
So maybe it's also known as MBT (Model Based Testing)?
If so, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_testing for information on that and some handy links to tutorials etc.
Hope that helps!
Mark Mayo
2009-10-30 12:18:24
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If by "Robot Army Testing" you mean assembling a suite of automated tests on a grand scale (sort of xUnit on steroids) then this presentation provides a helpful introduction. It is also known as Model-Based Testing.
edit
As uberRouse notes, the use of randomly generated values in testing is interesting. I first came across this in 2005. It was a tool called Agitator from Agitar Software which took manually written unit tests and expanded on the coverage by plugging in random values and edge cases.
APC
2009-10-30 12:25:10
That basically is just Automated Testing and the pros of it. It doesn't mention the cons (well apart from forgetting about actually testing). Mildly frustrating with all these buzz names sometimes eh :) Good presentation tho - the bugs found with random input - that stat was just scary!
Mark Mayo
2009-10-30 13:15:10
+1 for the link. It's intriguing and also slightly sinister that Google is behind all this Robot Testing stuff, because they are set on world domination....
APC
2009-10-30 12:59:55
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Check here more about Robot Army Testing :http://www.geocities.com/model%5Fbased%5Ftesting/intelligent.pdf
joe
2009-10-30 15:52:09
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Joe - Big Dog is coming for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
TMG
2010-04-06 01:46:18