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Reasons to Extend the DevTest Solutions

DevTest Solutions provides most of the elements that are required to test enterprise software components. However, you can create your own elements to solve specific problems. For example,DevTest does not provide built-in support for testing FTP clients. If you write an FTP client, you could create the following:

• Custom node to test the transfer of files
• Custom node to verify the contents of transferred files
• Custom filter to store portions of the file in DevTest properties

You can create custom types of other DevTest elements, such as data sets and companions. For more information about extending other elements, see the JavaDocs in the doc folder of your installation directory.