goksn

 Profile Answers by goksn 

• Sep 6th, 2009

 

This is very specific question, and difficult to answer. However, I assume that a tester has one DOS batch file which installs some application (AUT).
As a black box software test, I will do the following
- I will try to understand the structure of the batch file sequence of code and possible execution paths.
- Based on the execution paths, I will add appropriate comments and echo statements (depicting the execution path functionality).
- I will run the batch file and in the command prompt , I will check whether those execution paths are getting executed by noticing the output of echo statements.

I will repeat the above steps for installation testing for
- Different modes of Installation (silent installation, custom installation, typical installation etc)
- Different Windows
flavors (Win NT,Win2k,WinXP,Vista etc..)