HP WBEM Services Software Developer's Kit for HP-UX Provider and Client Developer's Guide A.01

Provider Implementation

Testing and Debugging Providers

Chapter 478

Testing and Debugging Providers

The following kinds of testing should be considered:

• Installation

• Schema modiﬁcation during installation: verify that guidelines for

upgrading schema are observed. (See Chapter 3, Rules for Updating

Schema.)

• Normal operation

• Invalid requests

• Continuous hours of operation (CHO)

• Memory leaks

• Thread-safe operation

• Code coverage/path analysis

• Requests that return very large responses; for example, returning a

large number of instances

• Very large/long requests

• Large number of concurrent requests

• Provider shutdown

• Update/re-install

• Removal

Installing and Running a Provider

Run-time testing of providers must be done on a system on which HP

WBEM Services for HP-UX is running. In order to make a provider

available for testing, the following steps should be taken:

1. Create a symbolic link (with the ln -s command) to the shared

library in /opt/wbem/providers/lib. For example:

$ ln -s /<test-path>/libTestProviderModule.sl

/opt/wbem/providers/lib