[qmtest] QMTest for real-time testing?

[Mark Mitchell]

Herb Schilling wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I have only just begun using QMTest for some simple applications.
>
>  I told some others about QMTest and they asked me if they could use 
> it for testing some real-time, data acquisition code. I don't really 
> know. Can someone help me give these people an answer? 

Herb --

There's no reason that QMTest could not be used with real-time code.

However, it would probably make sense to create some test classes that 
were specifically targeted at your application and knew how to perform 
the tests in a way that did not disturb the running system.  In other 
words, the hard problem will be figuring out how you want to test your 
application, not using QMTest to perform the testing!

Once you know how you want to test the code, you will either right 
scripts or Python code that implement that test procedure.  That code is 
a QMTest test class, and then QMTest can manage all the execution of the 
tests, storage of results, etc.

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