Several
new terms are unique to NaviQuest. You will need to familiarize
yourself with them before you begin to use this facility.
The
following terminology and concepts are used throughout this
topic:
- base line test set
- A special case test set, which includes all test cases
for data
sets not planned for SMS management. Expected values are nulls ('');
the associated special subtype prefix is NEVR.
- data classification
- The
process of determining the data types in your installation
and identifying data subtypes that require specific SMS data services.
- data subtype
- Groupings
of data sets from a data type needing identical SMS
services, such as performance, backup, migration, or deletion. NaviQuest
testing is managed at the subtype level.
- data
type
- Major groupings of data.
TSO, test, batch production, online
production, system, and temporary are examples of data types that
most installations have.
- errors
- Results
that are different from the expected results. Errors
are a subset of exceptions.
- exceptions
- A test case whose results differ from the saved expected results.
For a regression test case, this exception is also an error; for
an initial test case, this exception might or might not be an error.
If the result is equal to the expected value, there is no error.
- expected results
- Values
that you want assigned by the ACS routines for data class,
storage class, management class, and storage group for a specific
subtype when the ACS routines perform correctly.
- initial test
- First-time testing of a single data subtype performed
prior
to converting the data to SMS. The test may include regression tests
for other data subtypes that have already been tested successfully.
- phase or implementation phase
- Data conversion to SMS management of one or more
data subtypes
with the same data type.
- phase test set
- Group of subtype test sets that define all data
subtypes that
make up a phase. Phase test sets are converted to SMS management within
a single phase.
- regression test
- Testing of data subtypes that have already been successfully
tested, along with the initial test of the current phase subtype.
- results
- Values that are assigned by
the ACS routines for data class,
storage class, management class, and storage group for a specific
test case. These results might or might not be correct.
- saved expected results
- Results that have been
saved in the test case after the successful
initial test of the subtype test set. The results are used by the
ACS comparison function during regression testing.
- subtype prefix
- A
unique 1-to-4 character prefix associated with each data subtype.
This prefix is used to relate the data classification data subtype
to the subtype test set and to group all test cases together for a
single subtype test set.
- subtype test set
- A group of test cases for all data sets
associated with the
same data subtype. All test cases within one subtype test set have
the same expected results.
- testbed library
- A
partitioned data set (PDS) that contains one member to define
each test case.
- test case
- Parameters associated with a single data
set that is tested
using ISMF option 7.4.3.