I'll steal Steve's format..... Component Model Interoperability testing Goal: To achieve deployment-time interoperability of the component model frameworks written by different people. Means of achievement: Testing Means of testing: Pre-defined components and CDL templates, with measurable outputs. Process: A core set of test components are created: 1) A simple component with a predefined resource property <testvalue> defined in its CDL. Additionally, this component should expose resource properties for timing conditions, and its state transitions. These would include <timeOfInitialize>, <timeOfFail>, ..., <stateList>. The <stateList> would be a comma separated list of the transitions the component took in its lifetime: initialized, running, failed, terminated, destroyed. 2) A component which exhibits failure conditions. a. Fails on transition to a specified state. b. Fails on change of a resource property. c. Faults on change of a resource property. 3) A component which can test the value(s) of other component's properties and assert truth. This component is ideally a delegate, thus the remainder of the system which it tests would act as a separate child system. This component should also receive events and be able to assert conditions based on the event. Each implementer creates a test harness that uses their own Deployment API client to test these components. No actual deployment is expected to be done, since these are not tests of deployment, but of the infrastructure. The tests to be implemented follow the component model test plan. In order to do this, I will need to update the Component Model Test Plan to fully specify these components and the explicit positive and negative test cases. If this methodology is reasonable, I will start that process. Stuart Stuart Schaefer CTO sschaefer@softricity.com Softricity, Inc. 27 Melcher Street Boston, MA 02210 ph 617.695.0336 x112 fx 617.338.7769 www.softricity.com - Virtually, Anything Is Possible(tm) The Softricity Desktop(tm) enables applications to be as instantly available and easy to use as electricity "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection". -- Butler Lampson