Test Plans
The OpenTAP test automation platform, and Keysight PathWave Test Automation products built with it, consume and interpret Test Plans. The OpenTAP User Guide defines a Test Plan as follows:
A test plan is a sequence of test steps and their associated data. They are stored as XML files, and use the ".TapPlan" file extension.
Let's peek inside an actual OpenTAP test plan:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TestPlan type="OpenTap.TestPlan">
<Steps>
<TestStep type="OpenTap.Plugins.BasicSteps.LogStep" Id="a5d8babd-6d13-4b6d-bb1c-f0da9eaf99e0">
<LogMessage>Starting IoT Test</LogMessage>
<Severity>Info</Severity>
<Name Metadata="Step Name">Log Output</Name>
<ChildTestSteps />
</TestStep>
<TestStep type="OpenTap.Plugins.BasicSteps.DialogStep" Id="fa570016-be72-4986-8290-d374f72fa143">
<Message>Starting Test - Continue?</Message>
<Title>Title</Title>
<Buttons>OkCancel</Buttons>
<PositiveAnswer>NotSet</PositiveAnswer>
<NegativeAnswer>NotSet</NegativeAnswer>
<UseTimeout>false</UseTimeout>
<Timeout>5</Timeout>
<DefaultAnswer>NotSet</DefaultAnswer>
<ShowPicture>false</ShowPicture>
<PictureSource />
<PictureDescription />
<Name Metadata="Step Name">Dialog</Name>
<ChildTestSteps />
</TestStep>Test Steps
OpenTAP executes Test Steps in a Test Plan from top to bottom. Each Test Step can run child Test Steps, either sequentially or in parallel, and entire Test Plans can be embedded within a single Test Step. This hierarchy is recursive:
