UNIX Machines and Tests Triggered From Windows

How to run regression tests on UNIX machines and UNIX commands triggered from Windows machines with VBScript or VB.NET code.

Part of my SOA automation framework was to write a layer on VB.NET, that internally calls the QTP (to run some functional tests for a Windows application) and also call many other tools needed to be run both in Windows and all supported UNIX hosts. After a little investigation I learned to call the UNIX boxes from my regression test machine and run a series of UNIX commands from a Windows machine using VB.NET or VBScript code. I finally found a solution with the option to use a UNIX Remote Shell object to do the same without writing any test script specifically for UNIX boxes in Python again. Still we are able to manage the VBScript for the same for both Windows and UNIX boxes.

RSH is used to execute commands on a remote machine. The RSH command executes the command or a program in another host from the current working machine without having to log into that remote machine by entering a password as in ssh. You can run any UNIX command, or a shell script of a remote host.

As an example of rsh use, the following executes the command mkdir testdir as user remoteuser on the computer "host.example.com" running a UNIX-like system:

rsh -l remoteuser host.example.com "mkdir testdir"

Sample UNIX command to execute the product exe file from a Windows machine:

Rsh.exe aix -l g1qareg setenv LIBPATH /export/home/hg1/host_6.0.1306.0.exe

Command executed:

Rsh.exe aix -l g1qareg setenv LIBPATH /export/home/hg1/STT_Tests/Generate_Regression/builds/aix5/doc1host_6.0.1306.0/; cd /export/home/hg1/STT_Tests/Generate_Regression/Input/56_inputs/all;/export/home/hg1/STT_Tests/Generate_Regression/builds/aix5/Test_6.0.1306.0/TestTool /export/home/hg1/Test1.rem ops=/export/home/hg1/STT_Tests/56_generic_ops/Test1.ops MMGX CMP ecp=/export/home/hg1/STT_Tests/builds/aix5/Test1/doc1ecp;

Part of the code snippet in VBScript to generate dynamically using configuration settings parameters:

'=================INSTALL SETTINGS====================================

Install_on = array("zsuse") 'Names should be same as arrUnixBoxNames below

'arrUnixBoxNames=array("hpux11","redhat","sun480","sun450","tru64","aix","hpuxi","zsuse")

'================= RUN - MANDATORY SETTINGS==========================

user_ID ="g1qareg" ' used in RSH calls.

Public Const use_Doc1gen_MMGX_Swtich = True

Private Sub setBuildVersion()

If Lcase(Shell_Verbosity) = "on" Then : wscript.echo("setBuildVersion() called.") : End If

Dim strLine, logFileStream, localFSO, objWshShell, objWshShellExec, strCmd

localFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'Set localFSO.CreateTextFile(oTempLogFile, True)