An efficient approach to creating automation scripts in platform-independent environments
Ahmad Izuddin Zainal Abidin1, Mohd Hamzali Azizan2.
During system development life cycles, system developers perform so many repeated tasks such as compilation, unit testing, system installation, and file transfer. Some developers choose not to automate scripts because they are too busy working on the development process, ending up relying on the existing build tools. The problem of many existing build tools is the usage of text files, allowing mistakes to crawl into the configuration files. The proposed build tool allows automation for the configuration files in graphical user interface (GUI) approach. The GUI-based build tool is expected to help users install the tool without even knowing the syntax of the automation scripts. In order to do automation in different platforms, the developers would have to use different tools, causing them to create different automation scripts for different platforms. This may result in inconsistent automation processes across different platforms. The research aims to develop a platform-independent script generator so that the system would automatically convert instructions into scripts which potentially speeds up the development process of a particular framework.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia