In a .net development environment, I'm looking to implement some regression testing scripts to do some end-to-end (/blackbox) testing on a fully setup server based application, which will end up being fairly complex.
My initial thought was to roll my own powershell scripts/XML configuration of the steps. But I wanted to do some analysis to see if there is anything out there I could reuse, and perhaps what anyone else did which might prove to be a best practice (which I haven't found, as of yet).
I realised I could potentially just use an MSBuild project, along with the MSBuildExtensions and community tasks, but I've found these scripts to be harder to modify/maintain in the long run.
An example of some of the job steps I'd be coding for one of the applications:
- Copy files to certain directories and trigger a service to load
- Wait for the service to load files (checking sql tables for job completion)
- Truncating tables (etc, on sql databases)
- Comparing sql table output with expected results
- Parsing log files
- and so on
Some pretty simple powershell would be able to cater for most of these. I'd be interested on opinions: what do you use if you have some regression style end-to-end testing? Rolling your own in order to have a fairly simple, and specific implementation, or use a third part tool (like MSBuild, or something else)?
