As part of the Microsoft Robotics Studio August 2006 CTP, we provide a small test suite that can be used to verify that various parts of the Studio behave as expected. For platforms or languages not mentioned on our download page you can try and see if the basic functionality is ok by installing the Studio and running the tests. The test suite is in the form of a few VBScripts that can be executed directly from a command prompt without any parameters. From a "Microsoft Robotics Studio Command Prompt" you can find the scripts by going to this folder:

 

cd test\Dss\BVT

 

You can run any of the scripts using the Windows Scripting Host, for example

 

cscript BVT_Intranode.vbs

 

When running this particular script you will see three Command Prompts popping up and if the script terminates correctly you will see something like this in the Command Prompt where you started:

 

Microsoft Robotics Studio: C:\Microsoft Robotics Studio (August 2006)

Terminating running DssHost processes

Starting the first node of the BVT intranode test

Starting the second node of the BVT intranode test

BVT is running... for most recent results, see C:\Microsoft Robotics Studio (August 2006)\test\Dss\BVT\BVT_Intranode.output.txt

BVT passed successfully!

Terminating running DssHost processes

 

You can find the most recent result of the test suite in the output.txt file. In addition, you can see the debugging output generated by the Studio using a tool such as "DebugView" from SysInternals™. The other scripts function in a similar manner. If you find problems then we are interested in hearing about it on the Microsoft Robotics Studio newsgroup.