Retest is used to automate black box regression testing.
Retest is provided both as an application, and as a library.
The retest application works by reading a retest plan (.rt plain text
file) and either generating expected files or generating actual files
and comparing them with previously generated expecteds, reporting any
discrepencies. (It can also be used purely to generate files.)
All you need to do to use retest (beyond the easy one-off process of installing it), is to create a suitable retest plan file for each application you want to test.
For documentation, source code, and precompiled retest.exe for 64-bit
Windows, visit the retest home page.
If you have rust installed, the retest application can be downloaded and
installed using cargo install qtrac-retest (the executable is called
retest or retest.exe).
Retest can also be used as a rust library. This provides two APIs, one for
creating retest plans using retest plan (.rt) files, and the other for
creating plans using pure code. Once a plan is created by either API it
can then be generated or retested.
For your Cargo.toml we recommend using:
toml
[dependencies]
retest = { package = "qtrac-retest", version = "4" }
Then, in your crate root, for Rust 2015 add extern crate retest, and for
Rust 2018 or later simply add use retest.
Retest is free open source software (FOSS) licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).