RE: [ebxml-iic] Concurrent threads and exceptions in test cases

Jacques,

I am attaching a diagram and modifed Test Framework schema to support forks, joins, synchronous and asynchronous actions.

I also attached the actual schema... plus an XML instance file of the scripting applied to your test scenario below. I also "inlined"

the instance file into this message.

Rather than using <fork>, <join>, and <goto>, I suggest <if> and <then> ( plus I add <else> and <elseif> )

Concurrency for a <TestStep> is defined through the <if> element, and each individual <TestStep> can have an

"asynchronous" attribute value of "true" or "false". Joins can "and" or "or", as defined by the <if> element's

"connectivePredicate" attribute falue of "and" or "or".

Please see the attached schema diagram illustrating my suggested syntax.. plus the attached XML file that validates

to the schema, representing the use case you defined below:

Test Thread "main":

(step1)- send (M1)

(step2)- async (exceptionE)

(step3)- expect (M2)

(step4)- verify (M2)(decide to fail / succeed the test case)

Test Thread "exceptionE":

(step1)- expect (ErrorM)

(step2)- verify (ErrorM) (decide to fail or not the test case)

Below is the <TestCase> representing the above scenario: The Test Driver would recognize <TestStep> #2 as asynchronous, and would treat the

<TestStep> as a parallel operation and proceed to <TestStep> #3. <TestCase> success would be the determination that all 3 <TestStep>s evaluate to

"true" (pass), with <TestStep> #2 evaluated whenever it completes its asynchronous operation ( or times out ).

This <TestCase> does not illustrate the flexibility of the schema for doing "forks" and "joins". It would be interesting to see if we can model

some BPSS <TestCase>s using this schema.

Comments?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<ebTest:TestSuite xmlns:ebTest="http://www.oasis-open.org/tc/ebxml-iic/tests" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ebTest:configurationGroupRef="base">

<ebTest:MetaData>

<ebTest:Description>POC for BPSS testing</ebTest:Description>

<ebTest:Version>0.1</ebTest:Version>

<ebTest:Maintainer>Michael Kass</ebTest:Maintainer>

<ebTest:Location>ScriptingTestSuite.xml</ebTest:Location>

<ebTest:PublishDate>01/08/2004</ebTest:PublishDate>

<ebTest:Status>DRAFT</ebTest:Status>

</ebTest:MetaData>

<ebTest:TestCase ebTest:id="testcase_1" ebTest:description="POC of asynchronous fork" ebTest:requirementReferenceId="req_1">

<ebTest:TestStep ebTest:description="Send a message" ebTest:asynchronous="false" ebTest:id="step_01">

<ebTest:PutMessage ebTest:description="Send a message">

<ebTest:MessageDeclaration/>

</ebTest:PutMessage>

</ebTest:TestStep>

<ebTest:TestStep ebTest:description="Check for possible Error Message" ebTest:id="step_02" ebTest:asynchronous="true">

<ebTest:GetMessage ebTest:description="Retrieve Error message">

<ebTest:Filter>/MessageStore//Message//(MessageHeader(eb:ConversationId=$ConversationId)) and not(eb:ErrorList))</ebTest:Filter>

<ebTest:TestAssertion ebTest:description="Verify Error is NOT present">

<ebTest:VerifyContent>//Error</ebTest:VerifyContent>

</ebTest:TestAssertion>

</ebTest:GetMessage>

</ebTest:TestStep>

<ebTest:TestStep ebTest:description="Verify Response Message" ebTest:id="step_03" ebTest:asynchronous="false">

<ebTest:GetMessage ebTest:description="Retrieve Response message">

<ebTest:Filter>/MessageStore/Message//(MessageHeader(eb:ConversationId=$ConversationId and eb:Action="Mute"))</ebTest:Filter>

<ebTest:TestAssertion ebTest:description="Verify Response is present">

<ebTest:VerifyContent>//Error</ebTest:VerifyContent>

</ebTest:TestAssertion>

</ebTest:GetMessage>

</ebTest:TestStep>

</ebTest:TestCase>

</ebTest:TestSuite>

Mike

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