Rubric

Essential

1. A comprehensive scripting/programming language e.g. containing: loops, case statements, variables, string handling, functions etc. with specific statements for testing.
2. The ability to divide the script into a small number (3 or 4) of repeatable modules.
3. Supports the use of multiple data sheets/tables (up to at least 8).
4. The ability to store objects names in the data tables and refer to them in the script.
5. The ability to treat the contents of different cells in the data sheets as input data, output data, windows, objects, functions, commands, URL, executable paths, commands etc.
6. The ability to access any data sheet from any module.
7. The ability to identify the data sheet columns by generic, indexed names.

Highly Desirable

1. The ability to recover from Severity 1(fatal) errors and still continue to the end.
2. The ability for the user to create User defined functions.
3. The ability to write directly into the results report.
4. The ability to write into the data table (by the script).

Nice to Have

1. Direct interface to the test management system (bi-directional).
2. The ability to import data sheets “on the fly”.
3. The ability to add comments to the data table (rows).
4. The ability to restrict output to the results file.