Diagram Testing

CA Gen gives you the ability to perform diagram testing. After you complete construction, you can perform end-to-end testing from data modeling to data storage for block-mode applications under UNIX, Linux, NonStop, Windows and TSO, GUI applications under Windows, Distributed Processing Client (DPC) applications under UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Distributed Processing Server (DPS) applications under z/OS CICS, UNIX, Linux, Windows, and NonStop.

You can view the logic behind your application while stepping through the application's execution one statement at a time. If the application does not perform as you expected, you can immediately identify the action diagram statement being executed. You can then alter this statement in the CA Gen software so that processing will perform as required.

The Distributed Processing Client and Diagram Trace Utility provide an interactive debug facility for clients and servers generated and constructed using CA Gen. An application developer can step through the generated application using CA Gen action diagrams.

Using trace-mode debugging, you can:

View the execution of a load module.
Stop the debugging process to examine or modify the contents of variable or loop counters.
See transfers of control between statements.

The load module can be set to execute only one line at a time, so that the effect of calculations on variables can be reviewed. This is also the concept behind diagram testing. The CA Gen software enables you to test the action diagrams that you build with using diagram testing. Diagram testing does not show the execution of source code.

For more information on application testing for a particular platform, see the following documents:

Mainframe
z/OS Implementation Toolset User Guide for or

Host Encyclopedia Construction User Guide
UNIX and Linux
UNIX and Linux Implementation Toolset User Guide
Windows
Windows Implementation Toolset User Guide
NonStop
NonStop Implementation Toolset User Guide