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Class kickoff


public class kickoff

This script invokes the tests specified in the associated suite table Data/suite.xls. We call it "kickoff" because all it does is to call the generic test suite driver with a few parameters.

By default this suite processes the suite table whose name is hard-coded in the script (you must read the code to find it out). This is desirable because production suite tables should be kept stable and under version control (i.e. read-only). Such tables should define the complete set of tests for the particular test purpose.

However, during development of the test suite or in a multi-user environment it is often needed to execute only parts of the whole test suite. One could do this by enbling/disabling rows in the production suite table. This shall soon prove inconvenient and cumbersome. Moreover, it corrupts the afore mentioned stability of production test suites.

A better way to cope with this problem is by creating small private suite tables and by redirect the kickoff-script to these tables instead of the default one.

You can do this by allocating the environment variable called MY_SUITE and assiging the appropriate value to it (the name of your suite table relative to the DATA_HOME directory, e.g. "mysuite.xls"). Remember to remove this variable when you are ready to execute the default suite.

Stereotype main test
tsl kickoff.tsl


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