What is Robot Army Testing?

Question

What is Robot Army Testing? Where is it used? How can I learn it?

Answer 1

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!

Answer 2

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.

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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.