Test-Driven Development for OUAF+Edge application

Hi Folks,
I work on a edge application (web application) that is based on OUAF.
In order to have my test scripts code to be more aligned with developers' code, I want to import the jar file for source code into Open script (oracle testing tool based out of Eclipse IDE) and then develop test scripts and give those test scripts back to developers to run them on JUnit environment before they check in the code to source control. This way, I want to ensure that if any test scripts because of any bugs or regressions.
And also I want to enable the build team to run these test scripts during build time as part of sanity. This would reduce our testing time a lot.
What are your ideas and please provide your insights.
Edited by: OATS Explorer on Mar 16, 2012 12:11 AM

any ideas on this please, by anyone?

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