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Deploy a Native Test Step

Native test steps must be explicitly declared to DevTest at startup of the Test Manager. This declaration allows the authoring framework to associate the three classes that were defined previously. This declaration is done in the lisaextensions file against the nodes element. The classes themselves do not refer to one another. They are connected in the lisaextensions file.

The following example defines a new category for the custom test step. This example is used in the tree of the user interface. Precede any spaces in a node category with the backslash character.

nodes=com.mycompany.lisa.node.FTPTestNode
 nodeCategories=FTP\ Stuff
 FTP\ Stuff=com.mycompany.lisa.node.FTPTestNode
 com.mycompany.lisa.node.FTPTestNode=com.mycompany.lisa.node.FTPTestNodeController,com.mycompany.lisa.node.FTPTestNodeEditor

For more information about the lisaextensions file, see Extending DevTest Solutions in Using the SDK.