1. Compliance Test Language (CTL) Chuck Morris Northrop Grumman

2. CTL – Test Structure Param description * Expected context description Assertion statement string * Spec Title and section # * * Metadata XSL/CTL Instructions

3. CTL – Instructions  XSL Instructions:  Template-level XSL instructions are supported  Includes instructions for decisions, looping, variables, etc.  CTL Instructions:  Request: Submit a GET or POST HTTP request  Form: Ask for user input using an XHTML form  Fail: Used to indicate a test failure  Call-test: Execute a sub-test  Call-function: Execute a java or XSL function  Message: Log a message to the user

4. CTL – Extensibility  Custom Parsers  Convert web service response from binary to XML  Written in Java  Example: ImageParser  Custom Functions  May be used in XPath expressions or called with a call- function tag  May be written in Java or XSL  Many existing Java functions can be used  Java functions can accept and return built-in Java types and W3C standard DOM XML nodes

5. CTL – Test Suites  Just one starting test per suite string QName  Tests calls subtests, resulting in a test hierarchy  The test hierarchy is dynamic  Tests that are not applicable to the implementation being tested are not executed  Tests may be called multiple times, from several parent tests, with different parameters  If a subtest fails, its parent test fails