From: owner-stds-1450-4@majordomo.ieee.org on behalf of Ernst_Wahl
[wahl@cool.agere.com]
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 4:23 AM
To: STIL. 4
Subject: stds-1450.4: TestMethod definition



Referring to previous email
http://65.119.15.228/stil.4/stds-1450.4TermsConceptsClassificationsDefinitionsfromErnieWahl.txt
I decided to take a stab at an expanded definition suitable for STIL:

TestMethod: a specification of zero or more parameters paired with a
defined or implied sequence of events yielding a pass/fail judgment and
potentially parametric data. The specification must be sufficient to
permit implementation on a target tester and should therefore describe
the input (each parameter), the output (under what conditions to expect
Pass, under what conditions to expect Fail, and what if any parametric
data is produced) and potential side-effects. On the target tester, a
TestMethod may be represented by, for example, an object containing the
parameters, or a subroutine or macro where the parameters are passed in
as arguments.

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