From: owner-stds-1450-4@majordomo.ieee.org on behalf of
dave_dowding@agilent.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:45 PM
To: stds-1450-4@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: stds-1450.4: Terms/Concepts/Classifications/Definitions from
Ernie Wahl


Greetings,
	The following is a set of information Ernie
offered last week.
Dave Dowding

From Ernie Wahl: ======================================

We were discussing a glossary of terms. In the hope 
of arriving at a small and powerful system, I offer 
some debatable concepts, terms, classifications, and 
definitions:

Types:

    Testmethod

        parameters and a defined or implied sequence 
        of events yielding a pass/fail judgment and 
        potentially parametric data.

Objects:

    Test

        an object with a pre and two post actions (pass 
        and fail) and a body (the test method instantiation).

    Testblock

        A Test whose associated test method consists of 
        executing the flow of Tests/Testblocks inside 
        the block.

    Testflow

        The top-level Testblock.  The only Testblock not 
        pointed to by a Testflow-node.

    Testflow-node

        an object with a pre and multiple post actions 
        and associated ports (port of entry, pass, fail, 
        etc ports) and a pointer to a Test or Testblock.

    BinMap

        minimally stores software to hardware bin 
        mappings, i.e., might additionally store 
        alphanumeric alias to bin number mappings.

    Variables
    Mathematical Expressions
    Logical Expressions
        
        These form the basis for the following Actions.

Actions (Test/Testflow-node related):

    Assign: conditional/unconditional, pre/post test 
        execution

        assign a value, potentially a mathematical 
        expression, to a variable potentially based 
        on the evaluation of a logical expression.

    Bin: conditional/unconditional, pre/post test 
        execution

        set a soft bin potentially based on the 
        evaluation of a logical expression.

    Execute: conditional, pre test execution

        execute the test if the associated logical 
        expression evaluates as true (unconditional 
        test execution is the default).

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