The basic idea is to produce a tape, and then to read that tape on an AIPS system to verify that it yields correct results. It follows that generating a new tape with the 'WRIT' mode and then executing 'READ' and 'TEST' on it will also effectively test the tape tasks. This verifies the intercommunication of the systems. Finally, one wants to know the accounting statistics from the test runs. The accounting listing can be correlated with the message file listings in order to analyze the performance of the tested system.
Asterisks mark any run that aborted.
After this basic sequential listing comes a listing by task name giving the totals accumulated by each task. The listing is given in two sort orders. Second, the general pattern of executing and testing the tasks in succession will work for a wide variety of AIPS tasks and data types. This section will be added later and will discuss issues of numerical precision. It will also address various issues associated with benchmarking.