The Vortex OpenSplice Tester User Guide

• 1. Preface
  • 1.1. About The Vortex OpenSplice Tester User Guide
  • 1.2. Intended Audience
  • 1.3. Organisation
  • 1.4. Conventions
• 2. Introduction
  • 2.1. Features
  • 2.2. Location of Tester in the OpenSplice architecture
  • 2.3. Things to Know
  • 2.4. Prerequisites
• 3. Getting Started
  • 3.1. Starting and Stopping Tester
  • 3.2. Starting - Local Connection
  • 3.3. Starting - Remote Connection
  • 3.4. Stopping
  • 3.5. Remotely Controlling Tester
  • 3.6. Trying out Tester
  • 3.7. Tester Windows
    • 3.7.1. Main Window
    • 3.7.2. Overview Windows
      • 3.7.2.1. Services
      • 3.7.2.2. Scripts
      • 3.7.2.3. Macros
      • 3.7.2.4. Topics
      • 3.7.2.5. Readers
    • 3.7.3. Working Windows
      • 3.7.3.1. Sample List Window
      • 3.7.3.2. Statistics Window
      • 3.7.3.3. Browser Window
    • 3.7.4. Scripting Windows
      • 3.7.4.1. Edit Window
      • 3.7.4.2. Debug Window
    • 3.7.5. Other Windows
      • 3.7.5.1. Add Reader Window
      • 3.7.5.2. Batch Window
      • 3.7.5.3. Batch Results Window
      • 3.7.5.4. Chart Window
      • 3.7.5.5. Edit Sample Window
      • 3.7.5.6. Topic Instance Window
• 4. Familiarization Exercises
  • 4.1. Starting the Tester
  • 4.2. Connection management
    • 4.2.1. To Connect to a local OpenSplice instance
    • 4.2.2. To Connect to a remote OpenSplice instance
    • 4.2.3. To Disconnect
    • 4.2.4. To Exit Tester
  • 4.3. Topics and Readers
    • 4.3.1. The Topic list
    • 4.3.2. To View a Topic’s Type definition
    • 4.3.3. To Add a Reader from the Topic list
    • 4.3.4. To Add a Reader from the File menu
    • 4.3.5. To Add multiple Readers to the Tester timeline
    • 4.3.6. To Save the current Readers to a file
    • 4.3.7. To Remove all Readers
    • 4.3.8. To Load Readers from a saved file
    • 4.3.9. To Delete a Reader
    • 4.3.10. Notes on Reader Behavior Upon Creation
  • 4.4. Samples
    • 4.4.1. Writing and Editing Samples
      • 4.4.1.1. To Write Sample Topic data
      • 4.4.1.2. To display detailed information on sample data
      • 4.4.1.3. More information on sample info
      • 4.4.1.4. To Display extra fields
      • 4.4.1.5. To Edit a sample
      • 4.4.1.6. To Compare two samples
  • 4.5. Filtering
    • 4.5.1. To Filter the Sample List on a Topic
    • 4.5.2. To Reset Filters and display all samples
    • 4.5.3. To Filter on both Topic and Key
    • 4.5.4. Filter samples on State
    • 4.5.5. To Filter Samples on Key value
    • 4.5.6. Filter on column text
    • 4.5.7. Find specific text
    • 4.5.8. Global Topic filters
  • 4.6. Working with Samples
    • 4.6.1. To Delete a column from the Sample List table
    • 4.6.2. To Chart Sample Data
    • 4.6.3. To Dump a sample list to a file
    • 4.6.4. To Dump selected Samples only
    • 4.6.5. To Dump to a CSV format file
    • 4.6.6. To Dispose data with Alive state
    • 4.6.7. To Translate Sample data to test script
    • 4.6.8. Translate selected sample to test script
    • 4.6.9. To display samples with not_alive_no_writers state
    • 4.6.10. To control the number of samples kept per reader
  • 4.7. Groups
    • 4.7.1. Definition of a Group in Tester
    • 4.7.2. To Add a Reader under a Group
    • 4.7.3. To Add multiple Readers under a Group
    • 4.7.4. To Publish coherent sets
    • 4.7.5. To Subscribe coherent sets
  • 4.8. System Browser (Browser window)
    • 4.8.1. Browse tree
    • 4.8.2. Readers and Writers tables are updated when a new Reader is created
    • 4.8.3. Readers and Writers tables are updated when a new Reader is deleted
    • 4.8.4. To Check Reader and Writer compatibility
    • 4.8.5. To Show Disposed Participants from the Browser tree
    • 4.8.6. To Spawn a Tuner from the System Browser
    • 4.8.7. Statistics
      • 4.8.7.1. Statistics - participants
        • 4.8.7.1.1. Write sample topics and check statistics window content
      • 4.8.7.2. Statistics - topics
        • 4.8.7.2.1. Write sample topics and check statistics window content
  • 4.9. Scripting
    • 4.9.1. To Create a New Scenario
    • 4.9.2. To Create a New Macro
    • 4.9.3. To Edit an Existing Scenario or Macro
    • 4.9.4. To Save an open Scenario or Macro
    • 4.9.5. To Complete and Compile a Scenario
    • 4.9.6. Script selection
    • 4.9.7. Code completion
  • 4.10. Execute and Debug
    • 4.10.1. To Run the Current Script
    • 4.10.2. Batch execution (Batch window)
    • 4.10.3. To Run a Batch Script from the Command Line
    • 4.10.4. Batch results
      • 4.10.4.1. Load batch result
      • 4.10.4.2. Scan regression folder for batch results
      • 4.10.4.3. Scan regression for specified directory
  • 4.11. Adding virtual fields
    • 4.11.1. Add virtual fields to the topic
  • 4.12. Plugins
    • 4.12.1. Install / Uninstall plugins
  • 4.13. More on Virtual fields
    • 4.13.1. Adding Virtual Fields via plugin
    • 4.13.2. Adding Virtual Fields via script
• 5. Command Reference
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Menus
    • 5.2.1. File
    • 5.2.2. Script
    • 5.2.3. View
    • 5.2.4. SampleList
    • 5.2.5. Display
    • 5.2.6. Filter
    • 5.2.7. Editor
    • 5.2.8. Edit
      • 5.2.8.1. Keyboard-only commands
      • 5.2.8.2. Macro Recorder
  • 5.3. Lists
    • 5.3.1. Services
    • 5.3.2. Scripts
    • 5.3.3. Macros
    • 5.3.4. Readers
      • 5.3.4.1. Edit Sample Window
    • 5.3.5. Topics
    • 5.3.6. Groups
  • 5.4. Windows
    • 5.4.1. Sample List Window
    • 5.4.2. Statistics Window
    • 5.4.3. Browser Window
    • 5.4.4. Edit Window
    • 5.4.5. Debug Window
• 6. Scripting
  • 6.1. The Script Language
    • 6.1.1. A script file
    • 6.1.2. Variables
      • 6.1.2.1. Special variables
    • 6.1.3. Embedded Scripts
    • 6.1.4. Comments
    • 6.1.5. Macros
  • 6.2. The Instructions
    • 6.2.1. Send
    • 6.2.2. Dispose
    • 6.2.3. Writedispose
    • 6.2.4. Check
    • 6.2.5. Miss
    • 6.2.6. Disposed
    • 6.2.7. Mark
    • 6.2.8. Repeat
    • 6.2.9. Set
    • 6.2.10. Execute
    • 6.2.11. Log
    • 6.2.12. Message
    • 6.2.13. Fail
    • 6.2.14. Call
    • 6.2.15. Reader
  • 6.3. Instructions for Graphs
    • 6.3.1. Graph
    • 6.3.2. Column
  • 6.4. Instructions for Flow Control
    • 6.4.1. Wait
    • 6.4.2. If
    • 6.4.3. For
    • 6.4.4. Exit
  • 6.5. Instructions for the Message Interface
    • 6.5.1. Write
    • 6.5.2. Read
    • 6.5.3. Connect
    • 6.5.4. Disconnect
    • 6.5.5. Control
  • 6.6. Installing Script Engines
    • 6.6.1. Jython
    • 6.6.2. Jruby
    • 6.6.3. Groovy
• 7. Message Interfaces
  • 7.1. Message interfaces
  • 7.2. Getting Started with a Message Interface
  • 7.3. Types of interfaces
    • 7.3.1. Basic message interface
    • 7.3.2. Buffered message interface
      • 7.3.2.1. ADA Syntax for message definition
      • 7.3.2.2. Message ID translation
      • 7.3.2.3. Message Hooks
      • 7.3.2.4. Control functions
• 8. Google Protocol Buffers
  • 8.1. About Google Protocol Buffers in Tester
  • 8.2. Viewing type evolutions
    • 8.2.1. View Topic Type Window
  • 8.3. Reading protocol buffer topics
  • 8.4. Reading protocol buffer topics via script
  • 8.5. Editing protocol buffer topic samples
• 9. Python Scripting Engine
  • 9.1. About Python Scripting
    • 9.1.1. Design Goals
  • 9.2. Configuration
    • 9.2.1. Prerequisites
    • 9.2.2. Download and install Jython
      • 9.2.2.1. Automated installation and configuration
      • 9.2.2.2. Manual installation and configuration
        • 9.2.2.2.1. Install a Jython interpreter in a location of your choice
        • 9.2.2.2.2. Configure the Jython interpreter with OSPLScript package
    • 9.2.3. Verifying the installation
  • 9.3. A Quick Tour of OSPL Scripting
    • 9.3.1. Prerequisites
    • 9.3.2. Preliminaries
    • 9.3.3. Writing and Reading samples
    • 9.3.4. Working with QoS settings
    • 9.3.5. Working with WaitSets
    • 9.3.6. Filtering data
    • 9.3.7. Query Expressions, Query Parameters and their Limitations
    • 9.3.8. Using Coherent access
      • 9.3.8.1. Note: Using waitsets with group coherence
    • 9.3.9. Creating a unit test script
    • 9.3.10. Working with more Complex topics
    • 9.3.11. Creating a sample time-line
  • 9.4. Using Eclipse and PyDev to create and run OsplScript files
    • 9.4.1. Download and Installation
    • 9.4.2. Configuration
    • 9.4.3. Creating a PyDev Project
    • 9.4.4. Create a Python script
    • 9.4.5. Running a Python script
    • 9.4.6. Debugging a Python script
  • 9.5. Using PyCharm to create and run Tester Scripting
    • 9.5.1. Download and Installation
    • 9.5.2. Configuration
    • 9.5.3. Creating a PyCharm Project
    • 9.5.4. Create a Python script
    • 9.5.5. Running a Python script
    • 9.5.6. Debugging a Python script
• 10. Appendix A
  • 10.1. Scripting BNF
    • 10.1.1. TOKENS
    • 10.1.2. NON-TERMINALS
• 11. Contacts & Notices
  • 11.1. Contacts
  • 11.2. Notices

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