CTL Handling in TEAM Engine

This page will provide details about how CTL is read and process.

• How CTL test-suite read by teamengine?

  • The CTL test-suites are present in the ~/TE_BASE/scripts directory. The CTL test-suite will read only once in its life-cycle.

  • The teamengine has java class "Generator.java", it is used to transform the CTL test into executable xslt templates. The "generate_xsl.xsl" file is used by the Generator class to transform CTL test into templates.

  • All converted templates are kept into the ~/TE_BASE/work/ directory, according to test-suites. This conversion process is executed(processed) only once.

  • After that teamengine will use this templates from work directory for execution of tests.

  • Following are the steps to add the new attributes into the CTL and make accessible to teamengine:

    • For Example:

              <ctl:test name="ex:basic-main" isConformanceClass="true" isBasic="true">
                ......
                ......    
              </ctl:test>
      

    • We have added new attributes into CTL test, now we have to make accessible that attributes into teamengine. So we need to update the generate_xsl.xsl file to read this new attributes from the CTL.

    • After that generator class will transform this CTL test into executable stylesheet (XSLT) template.

  • While transforming the CTL test, it returns the Index object which is read by the TEcore class.

  • The TECore class is the main class that is responsible for the read ctl templates, execute template, write result into log file etc.

• Invoke CTL test using REST:

  • The teamengine has the module "teamengine-spi-ctl", it is responsible to execute the CTL test through the REST.

  • The CtlExecutor class is the starting point of the CTL REST api.