C.1 Functionality of VTEST

When the VTEST main program is started it performs the following tasks:

• Reading configuration information
• Contacting the CVS server; checking out the specified packages

• Starting a VTEST client instance on every platform that is subject to the VTEST test run. The client instance is started via the UNIX RSH command.

• Running a set of configurable tasks on each package.

• Creating an email report about files that failed to compile. The developer that has last checked in the source code file that caused a compilation error and the person that was specified as responsible for the package receive an email.

• Once a week an HTML warning report is generated. The report is realized as an HTML tree on the host where the VTEST program was started.

2003-03-27