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PC Tools Useful for Testing

There are several PC-based testing tools. They allow you to carry out regression testing. This is the rerunning of a test case or battery of test cases after a change has been made, in order to verify that no inadvertent side effects have been introduced.

The CA 2E Toolkit utilities include a number of tools that may be useful. When testing to display or change data in database files or data areas, use the following CA 2E Toolkit commands:

• Work with Files (YWRKF) command
• Edit LDA (YEDTLDA) command
• Edit GDA (YEDTGDA) command
• Edit Data Area (YEDTDTAARA) command

To enter debug for predefined sessions, or at any point, use the following CA 2E Toolkit commands:

• Start Debug (YSTRDBG) command
• Set Break Program (YSETBRKPGM) command

To reset initial test conditions, use the CA 2E Toolkit Copy Files (YCPYF) command.