Comments on: Test Automation: Programmatic Platform Profiling

By: I.M. Testy › Programmatically Detecting The Operating System Version (Part II)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:35:27 +0000

[...] 2 years ago I described a way to get the operating system version information using the System.PlatformID enumeration and the [...]

By: testingmentor

testingmentor — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:06:13 +0000

Hi Stth10,

I agree with you that option #2 (common code with OS dependent runtime handling) is a better practice as it would make maintainability of the code much easier and have less redundancy.

Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:49 AM by I.M.Testy

By: testingmentor

testingmentor — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:06:01 +0000

Hi,

Which approach below are you using typically and what do you recommend?

[pseudo code]

#1 Test code branches

strOS = GetOSVersion

If strOS = “Win95″ Then RunTestWin95

#2 Common test code with OS-dependant run-time specific handling

strOS = GetOSVersion

RunTest (strOS)

Function RunTest (strOS)

If strOS = “Win95″ Then…

End Function

I use #2 with our main AUT using GetAUTVersion within a test case but I am curious what is regarded as recommended best practice in this area.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:33 AM by stth10