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- TestList(.lite): The main TAT file containing all the test suite details
- Environment: Loads environment variables to be used by the test
- Prologue
- General "set-up" script to be called before all tests
- Per-test "set-up" script to be called before execution of the test
- Epilogue
- General "tear-down" script to be called at the end of all tests
- Per-test "tear-down" script to be called at the end of the execution of the test
- Test
- Command or list of commands to be executed as part of a single test
- Special commands that can be added to the test, such as sleep to give a delay between commands
- Commands can be concatenated in a sequential order, or let them run in parallel (for sender/receivers for example)
- Reference file
- The tests can be of any kind, for instance unit tests, but also integration tests
- A way to check the test results of any kind of test is to analyze their output
- The reference file has all the output of each command run during a test; each command is stored in a different output level (1, 2, 3, etc.) depending on the order of execution
- Grep and sed files
- TestList.grep: Is a file where each line is filtered out from the output using grep regular expressions before comparing to reference file
- TestList.sed: Is a file where each line is used to modify the output according to the sed regular expression before comparing to reference file