ajm@seqp4.ORG (A.J.Madison) (12/05/90)
i am but a poor communications engineer, suddenly thrown onto doing the qualification effort for a Motif portation onto our platform; alas, the dictates of working for a small company. i am completely ignorant about athena sets, writing scrollable arrow label widgets ( that's a joke :-), etc. so please bear with me. i do know about the test suite that comes with the source tape for Motif, and that will be the majority of my qualification effort. there are a couple of pieces of information that could greatly aid my efforts, though. a. there is mention made of a program called xtm, produced by the X Testing Consortium. is this program available? how can i contact the X Testing Consortium? or, have i missed something along the way? b. while the accompanying OSF documentation describes HOW to test Motif, it does not describe WHAT it is testing in Motif. Has anyone out there already figured out What is being tested? A test plan that has one sentence in it: *run accompanying test suite* is not acceptable by my manager, the product assurance department, nor me. When i say What, it can even be somewhat vague, such as: *running Xm Section 1 tests will cover 90% of the widget functions* or riduculously detailed, such as: *running Xm Section 1 InitSet test Scale_S1 exercises functions abc 3 times, bcd 2 times, and cde 4 times. anyway, you get the idea. any suggestions or answers would be greatly appreciated. uunet!m2c.m2c.org!seqp4!ajm A.J. Madison
evans@decvax.DEC.COM (Marc Evans) (12/06/90)
In article <676@seqp4.UUCP>, ajm@seqp4.ORG (A.J.Madison) writes: |> a. there is mention made of a program called xtm, produced by the X |> Testing Consortium. is this program available? how can i contact |> the X Testing Consortium? or, have i missed something along the |> way? The X Testing Consortium no longer exists (at least officially). The programs and tools created by this consortium are publically available, such as from your favorite FTP site (expo.lcs.mit.edu is a good choice). The xtm program and its friends require that the server being used supports the XTESTEXT1 server extension. If your server doesn't support this, then you either can't benefit from the tests, or you will have to add it to your server (not necessarily an easy task; I added this to the X[cm]fbpmax X11R4 servers for OSF many months ago. It took about 4 days to get everything working the way we wanted). If you have access to version 1.1.1 of Motif, a very different test suite is supplied which does not use xtm, nor the XTESTEXT1 server extension (e.g., it may not be worth your time to add the extension to your server). Version 1.1.1, and the associated tests are still being developed, but should be available soon... |> b. while the accompanying OSF documentation describes HOW to test Motif, |> it does not describe WHAT it is testing in Motif. Has anyone out |> there already figured out What is being tested? A test plan that |> has one sentence in it: *run accompanying test suite* is not acceptable |> by my manager, the product assurance department, nor me. When i say |> What, it can even be somewhat vague, such as: *running Xm Section 1 |> tests will cover 90% of the widget functions* or riduculously |> detailed, such as: *running Xm Section 1 InitSet test Scale_S1 exercises |> functions abc 3 times, bcd 2 times, and cde 4 times. anyway, you |> get the idea. I think that I'll defer this question to OSF, just to be sure that I don't answer it improperly. However, the bottom line is that currently, the only tests that are available to test Motif are those supplied by the OSF. Therefore, reguardless of what they test, you should make use of them as much as possible (unless of course, you want to build your own test suite 8-)). - Marc -- =========================================================================== Marc Evans - WB1GRH - evans@decvax.DEC.COM | Synergytics (603)635-8876 Unix and X Software Contractor | 21 Hinds Ln, Pelham, NH 03076 ===========================================================================