From the course: Advanced Scripting for Testers: Local Data, Spreadsheets, and Reporting

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Capturing stdout and stderr

Capturing stdout and stderr

From the course: Advanced Scripting for Testers: Local Data, Spreadsheets, and Reporting

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Capturing stdout and stderr

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- [Instructor] There are two main types of programs that you can run on your computer. You're already probably pretty familiar with the first type, GUI or graphical user interface programs. We already saw how you can start a program like this from the terminal. However, when you do this with a GUI program, it will decouple itself from the terminal session that started it. This means that as a tester, we can't really do much more with it from a scripting perspective. We'll to look later in the course at how to create scripts that will allow us to do that. But first I want to look at the second type of program that you can run on your computer, and this is the command-line interface or CLI-based programs. Programs like this can of course be run from the terminal, but they also give the benefit of being able to tap into some of the standard outputs and errors that it provides. One of the important things that we want to do as a tester is to be able to see what's going on with a program…

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