Test Coverage - PICT Tool from Microsoft

A year ago, I wrote about Pairwise Test Case Generation tool here. Now , somehow that tool was not available (atleast for free) and I searched for another pairwise generation tool and I got it too.. It is from Microsoft and you can rely it 100% and it is much more matured than the previous one.

This tool, by Microsoft, consist of a text file input and almost having a mini language with which we can form complex conditions in our Test Coverage, for e.g.

(i) We can give weightage to factors, In other words, IE(10), FF(5) means, Internet Explorer has more weightage than FireFox.

(ii) We can give conditions such as

IF OS = WIN7 THEN OFFICE<>2003 (means, we dont have the test environment of Office 2003  Windows 7 Operating System) etc.

Google for PICT tool from Microsoft site.

A Simple text file and a command line tool will give you a optimum test coverage matrix.

I am here mentioning a sample input file

# Sample Input File
# A hash at the beginning makes the line as comment
# My Test Coverage is across Operating Systems (OS) , Browsers , MS Office Versions, Databases across servers and clients
# Here is the sample file

Client_OS: Win XP, Win7, Redhat
Server OS: Win 2003, Win 2008 R2, HP_UX
Database: SQLServer(10), Oracle 10g
Browser: IE7, IE8, IE9, FF09, FF10, FF11
Locale: EN(10), DE, JP

IF [Client_OS] = "Redhat" THEN [Browser] like "FF??";

IF [Server_OS] = "HP_UX" THEN [Database] = "Oracle10g";

Output:

Client_OS	Server_OS	Database	Browser	Locale
Win XP	Win 2003	SQLServer	FF11	DE
Win XP	HP_UX	Oracle	IE8	JP
Win7	Win 2008 R2	SQLServer	IE9	EN
Win7	Win 2008 R2	Oracle	IE8	DE
Redhat	Win 2003	Oracle	FF09	DE
Win XP	HP_UX	Oracle	FF09	EN
Win XP	Win 2008 R2	SQLServer	IE7	JP
Win7	Win 2003	Oracle	IE9	JP
Redhat	Win 2008 R2	SQLServer	FF10	JP
Win XP	HP_UX	Oracle	IE9	DE
Redhat	HP_UX	Oracle	FF11	EN
Win7	HP_UX	Oracle	FF10	DE
Win7	Win 2003	SQLServer	IE8	EN
Win7	Win 2008 R2	SQLServer	FF09	JP
Win7	Win 2008 R2	SQLServer	FF11	JP
Win XP	Win 2003	SQLServer	FF10	EN
Win7	Win 2003	Oracle	IE7	DE
Win XP	HP_UX	Oracle	IE7	EN