Simple test suite for regression testing

Question

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has a simple test suite available.
I'm after these main areas:
1. arbitary script lanching (or just firing off ud32 files)
2. database comms (inserting test data, extracting final status)
3. comparison (ala diff) for regression tests.
I have knocked out a partial (i.e. not 100% finished!) one myself in perl, but was wondering what else other people have created .
i'm Looking for insparation / use what has already been done!
Thank in adavance,
Wayne

Answer 1

Subclass the test case itself, and have a factory method to return instances of the correct class you wish to test, or, use a protected instance variable to put it in
e.g
public class TestMyClass extends TestCase {
   public MyClass getMyClass() {
     return new MyClass();
  public void testSomething() {
       MyClass myClass = getMyClass();
       assertTrue(myClass.isWorking());
  public class TestSubclass extends TestMyClass {
     @Override
     public MyClass getMyClass() {
        return new Subclass(); // assume this extends MyClass
     // all the superclass test methods still get run
  }or
public class TestMyClass extends TestCase {
  protected MyClass myClass;
  public void setup() {
    this.myClass = new MyClass();
  public void testSomething() {
       assertTrue(myClass.isWorking());
  public class TestSubclass extends TestMyClass {
  public void setup() {
    this.myClass = new SubClass();
     // all the superclass test methods still get run
  }