Manager behaviour is thus monitored and provoked in an informal manner. For more formal, quality testing, NMAE has a rich array of test suite tools, results analysis tools and reporting tools to allow the production of comprehensive test suites, logging of results and in-depth results analysis. The diagram below shows a typical scenario in which the NMAE is deployed to test a Manager application. It also shows the architecture of the NMAE itself. The XTC user interface provides complete test execution control and gives an easy to read record of events, as well as presenting the test writer with an interface to other test generation monitoring and reporting facilities.
Test records are automatically assigned and records of each testing campaign retained.
NMAE provides you with the tools to examine the test run and analyse the results at varying levels of detail, but always in an easy to read form. Firstly the NMAE is configured for use with the user's GDMO model. All information subsequently supplied to you at the NMAE GUI appears as ASN.1 and object names - much easier to follow than object identifiers. The Gedit tool developed at NCC may be used to view and amend your management information model as required. Step 2 Creating Test Cases NMAE provides a number of tools to assist the test case writer and speed up test suite development.