Welcome to Topaz® for Total Test

Automated Testing with Topaz for Total Test

With Topaz for Total Test, developers can create and combine unit, functional, and integration tests of a program or a group of programs.

  • Virtualized Test, or Unit test, is used to isolate the program by virtualizing external calls and data access and making assertions on internal states of the program.

  • Non-virtualized Test, or Functional Test, is used for testing the program running live on the real system.

  • Integration test is used to test the interaction between two or more programs.

By combining unit, functional, and integration tests, developers are assured of having a regression test suite that covers all possible failure scenarios. Automated testing significantly accelerates the testing process and enables IT to put regular code updates into production at a pace necessary for fast, frequent, and error-free releases.

Non-virtualized Test (Functional Test)

The Non-virtualized Test feature of Topaz for Total Test, formerly known as XaTester by Compuware, is a functional test and integration test tool for testing COBOL, PL/I, and Assembler programs on IBM z/OS, and it can be used as a developer tool for easily calling programs during development. Topaz for Total Test Functional Test provides these features:

  • Testing Tool for testing COBOL, PL/I, and Assembler programs on IBM z/OS.

  • Collection of functional test data for selected test cases by using the "Generate Test Case" feature in Xpediter.

  • Collected Xpediter information is used to generate the Functional test case and format the Element properties collected so it can be used by the test cases.

Topaz for Total Test Web Client

You can use Topaz for Total Test's Non-virtualized Test feature within an Eclipse-based IDE (Topaz Workbench) or through a web browser to create, execute, and evaluate test cases.

This guide describes using the Non-virtualized Test feature from the web client interface and presumes that it has already been properly installed, and, if necessary, customized for your specific environment. For details please refer to the separate document Compuware Web Products Installation and Configuration Guide.

 

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Topaz for Total Test Non-virtualized Test Overview