Today I came across a very interesting problem. I had to write a Test Case document that had quite a huge number of test cases. The interesting part was that the Procedure and the result remained same but the name of the frame and the fields were chaning. I felt that copy/paste and modification would be a complete waste of time, so wrote this perl script quickly. Does what is expected.

#!/usr/bin/perl

#===============================================================================

# FILE: gui.pl

# USAGE: ./gui.pl

# DESCRIPTION: Create excel TC Document using perl.

# OPTIONS: —

# REQUIREMENTS: —

# BUGS: —

# NOTES: —

# AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal(amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in)

# COMPANY:

# VERSION: 1.0

# CREATED: 09/14/2009 06:58:42 PM

# REVISION: —

#===============================================================================

use strict;

use warnings;

use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

my $procedure;

my $result;

my $frame;

my $field;

my $line;

my $row = 1;

my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new(”amit_agarwal.xls”);

my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet(”GUI_TC”);

# To use blod style, you can use the below format.

# my $bold = $workbook->add_format();

# $bold->set_bold();

# $worksheet->write(5, 0, ”amitag”, $bold);

# We will assume that file ”amit” exists in current directory

# and contains two fields per line. First field is frame name

# and second is the name of the field to check.

open(FILE,&#8221;<amit&#8221;)|| die &#8221;Cannot open file amit for input&#8221;;

for $line ()

{

my $col = 0;

chomp ($line);

($frame,$field)=split(/,/,$line);

$procedure = &#8221;Objective: Verify the frame $frame\n&#8221;;

$procedure .= &#8221;Procedure:\n&#8221;;

$procedure .= &#8221;1. Go to frame $frame\n&#8221;;

$result = &#8221;1. Verify that the frame ($frame)is displayed correctly.\n&#8221;;

$result .= &#8221;2. Verify that $field is displayed in $frame&#8221;;

$worksheet->write($row++,$col,&#8221;Verify the frame $frame&#8221;);

$worksheet->write($row,$col++,$procedure);

$worksheet->write($row++,$col,$result);

}

close (FILE);

$workbook->close();

exit;