Agent behaviour is thus monitored and provoked in an informal manner. For more formal, quality testing, NMCE 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 NMCE is deployed to test an Agent application. It also shows the architecture of the NMCE 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.
NMCE 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 NMC Emulator is configured for use with the user's GDMO model. The Gedit tool developed at NCC may be used to view and amend your management information model as required. Step 2 Creating Test Cases NMCE provides a number of tools to assist the test case writer and speed up test suite development. The main test suite productivity tool is the Test Case Wizard.