The goal of Visual Basic for Testers is to teach the reader how to use Visual Basic to increase their level of sophistication as a tester. They will learn for example how to use VB to write an automated testing project. Along the way, Sweeney shows them what to look for in a well-written VB program. This will help them gain the experience necessary to both use Visual Basic to support an automated test project as well as to test a commercial application written in Visual Basic. Since testers often want to move to development tracks, the fact that readers will also learn a lot about good programming and the issues involved in maintenance and debugging is a big plus.

Table of Content

• Forewords by Elfriede Dustin and James Bach

Part I: In the Beginning - Preparing for Automated Script Writing

• Chapter 1: Automated Software Testing Overview
• Chapter 2: Getting Started with VB on an Automated Testing Project

Part II: The Second Stage - Introduction to Automated Script Writing

• Chapter 3: Introduction to the Visual Basic Development Environment
• Chapter 4: Understanding Visual Basic Application Essentials

Part III: Beyond the Basics - Now You're Testing!

• Chapter 5: Creating Test Utilities
• Chapter 6: Testing With the Registry
• Chapter 7: Introduction to the Windows Application Programmer's Interface

Part IV: Advanced Topics in Automated Test Scripting

• Chapter 8: Introduction to Database Testing
• Chapter 9: Classes, Collections and the Component Object Model (COM)
• Chapter 10: Testing the Web with Visual Basic
• Chapter 11: VB.NET: Brave New World (by Gary Cornell and Jonathan Morrison)
• Chapter 12: From Tester to Tester - Advice to the Visual Basic Automator

Appendices

• Resources and References
• More Controls
• File Access and Management

• Required Reading - Automated Testing Essays