Platform-independent and tool-neutral test descriptions for automated software testing

Current automatic test execution techniques are sensitive to changes in program implementation. Moreover, different test descriptions are required by different testing tools. As a result, it is difficult to maintain or port test descriptions. To address this problem, we developed TestTalk, a comprehensive testing language. TestTalk test descriptions are platform-independent and tool-neutral. The same software test in TestTalk can be automatically executed by different testing tools on different platforms. The goal of TestTalk is to make software test descriptions, which represent a significant portion of a software project, last as long as the software project