Putting It All Together › Testing the Application

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Testing the Application

Now that you have generated and built the application, created an executable file for the Maintain Project function, and started that executable file, you can test the application.

To test the application:

  1. Double-click Projects.exe to start the application.
  2. Click Maintain Employees.

    The property sheet appears with the Employees tab visible.

  3. Add the following employee:

Value

Enter

Employee ID

Emp04

Employee Name

Bob Strudwick

Employee Hire Status

Full-time

Employee Email

bstrudwick@anonycorp.com
  1. Close the dialog.
  2. Click Create New Project.

    The project wizard appears.

  3. Add the following project:

Value

Enter

Project ID

Proj05

Project Description

Create a data repository for legacy financial information.

Project Start Date

06/15/04

Project End Date

12/01/04
  1. Add the following tasks for the project:

Value

Enter

Task ID

DBImport

Task Description

Use db imp

Employee ID

Emp04

Value

Enter

Task ID

Transport

Task Description

Transport

Employee ID

Emp02
  1. Click Finish to close the wizard.
  2. Click Maintain Projects.

    The property sheet appears with the Projects and Tasks tab visible.

  3. Verify that the information you added with the wizard is in the database.
  4. Close the property sheet.
  5. Close the application.

At this point, you can no longer test the property sheet by running it directly from the Generate and Build window. You can only run the property sheet from the Project Manager function, because you specified an input parameter to tell the property sheet which tab to display.