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<copyright>
<year>2003</year><year>2009</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
under the License.
</legalnotice>
<title>Common Test User's Guide</title>
<prepared>Peter Andersson</prepared>
<docno></docno>
<date>2003-10-21</date>
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<description>
<p><em>Common Test</em> is a portable application for automated
testing. It is suitable for black-box testing of target
systems of any type (i.e. not necessarily implemented in Erlang),
as well as for white-box testing of Erlang/OTP programs.
Black-box testing is performed via standard O&M
interfaces (such as SNMP, HTTP, Corba, Telnet, etc) and,
if required, via user specific interfaces (often called test
ports). White-box testing of Erlang/OTP programs is easily
accomplished by calling the target API functions directly
from the test case functions. Common Test also integrates
usage of the OTP cover tool for code coverage analysis of
Erlang/OTP programs.</p>
<p>Common Test executes test suite programs automatically,
without operator interaction. Test progress and results is
printed to logs on HTML format, easily browsed with a standard
web browser. Common Test also sends notifications about progress
and results via an OTP event manager to event handlers plugged
in to the system. This way users can integrate their own
programs for e.g. logging, database storing or supervision with
Common Test.</p>
<p>Common Test provides libraries that contain useful support
functions to fill various testing needs and requirements.
There is for example support for flexible test declarations
by means of so called test specifications. There is also support
for central configuration and control of multiple
independent test sessions (towards different target systems)
running in parallel.</p>
<p>Common Test is implemented as a framework based on the OTP Test
Server application.</p>
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