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Jody Zung wrote:
> 
> So basically it'll look like this.
> 
> I have a process called OMC that I run on a file. There are options as
> well, so a command from the unix prompt would look like this:
> 
> omc  -dtmlckf -o <output dir> <filename.lib>
> 
> Then the thing runs for a while and ouputs a huge amount of stuff.
> After this I want to check the output directory for the correct files.
> 
> So i'll cd to the output directory, do an ls, or ll and visually check
> for the needed files.
> 
> Is there a way i can do all of this in a script and output to a results
> file??
> 
Yes, it's easy, but details depend on details of the application. It
looks like you're testing some batch application.

First: define testcases. (A testcase consists of an initialisation step,
followed by a sequence of program runs and validation of program
behavior: init, run, test, run, test,...)

Write a generic testcase driver that will perform
 1. the initialisation of the environment (depending on the testcase)
 in a loop
   2. run the application with the test inputfile
   3. check the correctness of the test output

You can use "i/o redirection" to collect output from your programs and
script in a file. For regressiontests it is convenient to have a set of
files with correct output so you can just run cmp or diff to check
whether anything has changed.

Peter.