PETA-Core Reference Manual

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Overview

2.1. Prerequisites

2.2. Purpose

2.3. Concepts

2.4. Terminology

2.4.1. Suite

2.4.2. Case

2.4.3. Module

2.4.4. Actor

2.4.5. Event

2.4.6. Operation

2.4.7. Message

2.4.8. Assertion

2.4.9. Context

2.4.10. Service

2.4.11. Filter

2.5. Artifacts

2.5.1. Test specification artifacts

2.5.2. Message template artifacts

2.5.3. Test configuration artifacts

2.5.4. Extension artifacts

2.6. Architecture

3. Communication basics

3.1. Sending messages

3.2. Receiving messages

3.3. Simulating lost messages

3.4. Timeouts

3.4.1. Client timeout

3.4.2. Server timeout

3.5. Measurement of response times

4. Language reference

4.1. <suite>

4.2. <case>

4.3. <module>

4.4. <init>

4.5. <final>

4.6. <event>

4.7. <operation>

4.8. <protocol>

4.9. <template>

4.10. <inputfilter>

4.11. <outputfilter>

4.12. <expecterror>

4.13. <substitution>

4.14. <omission>

4.15. <composition>

4.16. <element>

4.17. <attribute>

4.18. <assertion>

4.19. <context>

4.20. <plugin>

4.21. <argument>

4.22. <regexp>

4.23. <pattern>

4.24. <path>

4.25. <document>

4.26. <constant>

4.27. <reference>

4.28. <repository>

4.29. <annotation>

4.30. <description>

5. Configuration reference

5.1. <configuration>

5.2. <setup>

5.3. <internal>

5.4. <external>

5.5. <actor>

5.6. <service>

5.7. <argument>

5.8. <client>

5.9. <outputfilter>

5.10. <inputfilter>

5.11. <annotation>

5.12. <description>

6. Context information

6.1. Configuration information

6.2. Communication error information

7. Filters

7.1. Configuration and usage of filters

8. Extension mechanisms

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Data types

8.2.1. Built-in data types

8.2.2. Defining your own data types

8.3. Plug-ins

8.4. Reports

8.5. Hooks

8.6. Providers

8.7. Transport extensions

8.8. Filters

8.9. Extension registries

8.10. Arguments

8.11. API Reference

8.11.1. Package de.­verit.­peta.­engine.­context

8.11.2. Package de.­verit.­peta.­engine.­datatype

8.11.3. Package de.­verit.­peta.­engine.­document

8.11.4. Package de.­verit.­peta.­engine.­filter

8.11.5. Package de.­verit.­peta.­engine.­plugin

8.11.6. Package de.­verit.­peta.­modules

8.11.7. Constant field values

9. Module reference

9.1. Suite providers

9.1.1. FileSystem

9.2. Configuration providers

9.2.1. FileSystem

9.3. Template providers

9.3.1. FileSystem

9.3.2. Receiver

9.4. Filters

9.4.1. CdataWrapper

9.4.2. HTMLCompletion

9.4.3. HtmlFormEncoder

9.4.4. HTTPtoXML

9.4.5. Logger

9.4.6. XMLValidator

9.4.7. XSLT

9.5. Transport protocols

9.5.1. HTTP

9.5.2. HTTPS

9.5.3. RAWTCP

9.6. Plugins

9.6.1. Calculate

9.6.2. Datapool

9.6.3. Echo

9.6.4. ExtractPathFromURL

9.6.5. ExtractQueryParameterFromURL

9.6.6. FileContent

9.6.7. Join

9.6.8. Sleep

9.6.9. Eval

9.7. Data types

9.7.1. Date

9.7.2. Double

9.7.3. Integer

9.7.4. Long

9.7.5. String

9.8. Reports

9.8.1. JUnit

9.8.2. JUnitText

9.8.3. JUnitTextShort

9.9. Hooks

9.9.1. Null

10. Invocation

10.1. Command line interface

10.2. Apache Ant

10.2.1. Task definition

10.2.2. Task invocation

A. Supplementary tools

A.1. Suite filter

A.1.1. Blacklist and whitelist format

A.1.2. Ant Task definition

A.1.3. Ant Task invocation