Analysis and Evaluation of the Windows Event Log - Bill Buchanan

Barrie Codona, BSc (Hons) Network Computing, 2007
Figure 17 shows the pseudo code of the process that the application will go through
for generating a large numbers of files. Using a For Loop it will continue to create
files a predetermined number of times. Each of these files will also be uniquely
numbered in their filename.
Repeat the following ‘x’ number of times
{
Create a new file called ‘Sample’x’.txt’ in the test
directory
}
Figure 17: Generate a large number of files pseudo code
To provide some degree of error checking this can be slightly modified to perform a
check to see if the file already exists. Figure 18 shows how the application will use
the unique filename numbering to check if the file exists. This technique will also be
used for automatically deleting and modifying the files.
Repeat the following ‘x’ number of times
{
If file ‘Sample’x’.txt does not exist
{
Create a new file called ‘Sample’x’.txt’ in the test
directory
}
}
Figure 18: Generate files with error checking
Figure 19 is a screenshot of the application; it provides an option for the tester to
specify the number of events that they would like to generate, this can be any number.
There are four main buttons that will be used for most of the testing, one for
generating the text files, one for modifying the contents of the text files, one for
renaming the text files and one for deleting the text files.
The tester application also has a display window that outputs messages to the tester,
this is used for informing the user when it has started and completed any tasks, it also
informs the user when the ‘file counter’ has been changed and what value it is at.
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