Demonstration 4

Purpose

Demonstration 3 brought ETCE into the EMANE domain. We focused on the structure of an ETCE Test Directory and the way that file naming and placement interacts with test execution steps.

While the directory layout of Demonstration 3 is easy to digest, the large number of files and, especially, files with only minor text differences makes such a layout impractical. Small test changes may require manual edits to many files, which is error prone. Replicate this over many tests and things quickly become unmaintainable.

Demonstration 4 repeats demo 3 but reduces the number of Test Directory files to a more manageable set by exploiting the configuration redundancy. The new files are standalone template files or are organized into entire template directories and use mako in a very similar way to what we've seen previously in the LXC Plan File. The new format requires an expanded test.xml file that indicates templates to ETCE and provides the template variable values for publishing the Test Directory to its final form.

Activity 1 - A Smaller Test Definition

Activity 2 - Publishing a Test

Activity 3 - Run The Demo