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Chapter 3
Diagnostics
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Message Types
Various message types can be sent from test modules. Each message type can be individually filtered from
the message window. Each type can also be redirected to a separate file.
The following are the supported message descriptions and corresponding color code:
• Error messages are sent when a failure condition is detected by the test or the test executive. If this
message is sent, the test will indicate a failure in the test status window.
• Informative messages generated by tests with names like “Display CPU”.
• Advisory messages are sent to indicate conditions that a user should be aware of during testing, but are
not failures. For example, the test executive could display an advisory if a test is sending keep-alive
messages at intervals close to the test timeout period. This would indicate that the test is running slowly,
which may be due to running too many tests in parallel.
• Status messages are sent to indicate progress through the test.
• Prompt messages log the message and answer after a user-interactive dialog box is displayed by a test.
• Statistic messages include a piece of data you may want to collect in the data collection system, such as
the exact value of an analog measurement.
• Verbose messages are debug messages and usually only make sense to the module developer.
Summary File
The summary file displays the test’s full path, the last known state, the activity and the progress values. The
pass and fail count are recorded also.
The summary file is updated once per second during testing. The default file name is “xtc_summary.csv”,
but you can change the name with the /SUMMARY invocation parameter. There is also a place to change the
file name in the options window.
The output file is comma-separated for convenience when importing the file into a spreadsheet program. The
following is a sample extract from the summary file:
Test,State,Pass,Fail,Activity,Progress
Memory Size Check pkgname/configuration_0/flowname/system, idle, 1, 0, 7, 100%
Document File Types
XTC supports the following file types:
• XML Package File (.PKG) - XML representation of a Test Package.
• XML Snippet File (.SNP) - XML representation for a branch of a Configuration Tree that supports a
Module.
This extension designates a branch of a Configuration Tree. It contains no test flow data. This type can be
opened directly from the File menu by choosing Open. Snippet files are imported into package files.