Development of testing framework for SAS macro development.

What does it do:
Organizes team macro testing efforts, gives teams visibility into testing, and automates reporting & test comparison tasks. All of this is achieved within SAS using SAS Macros.

The test framework generates a tracking report to clearly display testing status, which tests passed or failed, automated testing, links to relevant test programs, and logs.

Purposes:
Increases the quality of analytical macros that are relied on to produce correct results.
Improved macro testing minimizes the risk of mistakes getting through to production, and reduces the time spent finding and fixing functional or analytical errors in your macros after release to end-users.

Who is this kind of solution for:
If your team is developing in-house SAS macros then this tool provides a framework for testing these macros.

The framework provides:
A standard metadata structure for tracking macro test case results, standard tools to be used to collect testing artifacts, and check testing results.

Automated checks of the log (no errors, or only expected errors are found)
Automated data set comparison to show outputs match expected results.
Reporting with access to test programs and test logs to review expected results.