RE: [cam] CAM, NIST and eTSL (Test Assertion Language)]?

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

Team,

 

Some further thoughts on this - CAM clearly fits as an Evaluation Adapter component.

 

The overall approach and architecture for eTSL reminds me closely of SMIL - except

that instead of multimedia shows being controlled - its business transaction systems!

 

In fact much in SMIL could be re-used I suspect...SMIL-T...!?!?

 

Interestingly - here at NIH on my project we are working on automated regression

testing.  Our primary Evaluation Adapter is GNUdiff !!  It compares the XML dump

from the Oracle database tables for previous test cases - with the current test

run.  The XML dump contains both failed and successful entries (either XML error

messages and response codes, or XML of data table entries created). Oracle

has facilities to auto-create XML dumps from tables using SQLPlus scripts that

I have written.

 

Again - preparation of test cases and automation is a significant need - we are

using Excel spreadsheets and VBscripts to auto-create XML test cases.  I've

also built combined xslt and CAM scripts to take a base XML instance and create

multiple test cases automatically.

 

I suspect our CAM toolset can be useful both in preparation (test case content

assembly) and post-process validation.

 

Beyond that - being able to control the execution of each piece dependent on

completion of the prior step - that is being done manually right now - and there

are basically 3 batches - upload of test cases & processing - then XML dump

of results - then validation and comparison.

 

Once we have this fully operational it will save hundreds of manhours of

tedious checking for every production codebase release.

 

DW

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [cam] CAM, NIST and eTSL (Test Assertion Language)]?
From: "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>
Date: Tue, November 14, 2006 12:05 pm
To: CAM OASIS TC <cam@lists.oasis-open.org>
Cc: Monica Martin <monica.martin@sun.com>

FYI,

 

This may be something that would work as a nice <Extension> to CAM - a eTSL processor...

 

Could be something we could jointly develop with NIST?

 

DW

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ebxml-bp] ebBP 11/14/2006: eTSL (Test Assertion Language)
From: "Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, November 14, 2006 11:26 am
To: ebXML BP <ebxml-bp@lists.oasis-open.org>, Jacques Durand
<JDurand@us.fujitsu.com>

Important for our future discussions and for the ETSI interoperability
test efforts, here is a link to the eTSL that was featured in an
upcoming research paper submission by NIST, KorBIT, Fujitsu and myself.  
I also believe there is a discussion list being formed for OASIS for a
new TC or alternative mechanisms to forward this work.
eTSL is a standardized assertion language for testing and also includes
an event board.

Information can be found at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20789/eTSL-draft-081.pdf

For more details see Jacques Durand, Jacques Durand
<JDurand@us.fujitsu.com>.

We discussed this at our last meeting 31 October 2006. Regards and see
you at 9 a.m. today.