STRIDE Runner

The stride executable runs target-based tests from a host computer and optionally uploads results to STRIDE Test Space. The program also can be used to list the names of all Test Units that exist in a STRIDE database file.

The stride executable is available to run on Windows XP and on Linux x86.

Running Tests

You may specify either built-in diagnostics or user tests to be run.

The built-in diagnostics are useful to validate a new installation. See Verifying Installation for details.

User tests comprise either sample tests provided by S2 Technologies or tests that you create.

Input

In order to run tests, you must provide the following information to stride.exe:

database file

This is the .sidb file that is created by s2scompile during the target build process. This file contains meta-information used to run tests.

device parameters

This tells stride.exe how to connect to the target.

tests to run

Unless you are running the diagnostic tests (using the <tty>--diagnostics</tty> option), you must specify the Test Units that you want to run. You may also optionally specify named hierarchical suites in which to put the results of the Test Units you designate.

Default Behavior

By default, all Test Units in the specified database are run, and the all results are put into the root suite. It is not necessary to explicitly specify Test Units unless you want to override the default behavior.

Test Unit Run Order

If implicitly specified by a wildcard, Test Units are run in the order in which their corresponding SCL pragmas were seen by the STRIDE compiler.

If explicitly specified, Test Units are run in the order in which they are given on the command line.

Test Unit Specification Rules

• Test Units are specified by name or wildcard and grouped together within parentheses, i.e. "(" and ")"
• When specifying more than one Test Unit in a group, each Test Unit name (or wildcard) must be delimited by a comma.
• The output of each Test Unit group is placed within a hierarchy of named suites. (The root suite does not have a name.)
• The suite into which a Test Unit group is placed is specified immediately before the group, e.g. suitepath(testunitgroup)
• Hierarchical suite paths are delimited by "/" (forward slash) and are always specified starting from the root.
• If the same Test Unit is specified to be run more than once, and one or more results are to be written to the same suite, the each conflicting Test Unit name is appended with an incrementing count in the form of "(n)". For example: Results from three runs of TestUnit "myTU" are all written to the root suite. The Test Units will be reported with the names "myTU" "myTU(1)" and "myTU(2)".

Wildcard Matching

The following wildcard characters are recognized in Test Unit specifications:

• * (asterisk) matches all Test Units
• - (hyphen) matches all remaining Test Units (useful when putting Test Units into suites)

Test Unit Specifiecation Examples

-r

Default behavior: run all Test Units and put results into the root-level suite.

-r /(*)

Same as above: run all Test Units and put results into the root-level suite.

-r /Suite(*)

Run all tests and put results into a suite named "Suite" that is a child of the root suite.

-r /(TU1,TU2,TU3)

Run the Test Units named "TU1", "TU2", and "TU3" in the designated order; put results into the root suite.

-r /(TU1,TU2,TU3) -r /SecondPass(TU1)

Run the Test Units named "TU1", "TU2", and "TU3" in the designated order; put results into the root suite. Then run the Test Unit named "TU1" again and put the results into a suite named "SecondPass".

-r /(TU1,TU2,TU3) -r /Remaining(-)

Run the Test Units named "TU1", "TU2", and "TU3" in the designated order; put results into the root suite. Then run all remaining Test Units and put the results into a suite named "Remaining".

-r "/Suite1/Suite2(TUa, TUb)"

Run the Test Units named "TUa" and "TUb", and put the results into a suite named "Suite2" that is a child of a suite named "Suite1" that is a child of the root. Note that we must enclose the specification in quotes since the specification contains a space.

-r "TUx TUy TUz"

This is a special convenience syntax. If the suite and grouping parentheses are omitted, the app runs the the named Test Units and puts their results put into the root suite.

Output

Upon test completion, test output is always written as follows:

console output

A quick summary of results is written to standard output. Test counts are shown for the categories of passed, failed, in progress, and not in use

local xml file

Detailed results are written to a local xml file. By default, this file is written to the directory where the input STRIDE database file is located and given the same name as the database file with an extension of ".xml". If you open this file in a web browser, an xsl transform is automatically downloaded and applied before rendering.

Optionally, you may also publish the results to your STRIDE Test Space upon test completion.

Test Space

Results are uploaded using your Test Space URL and login credentials. You must specify the testspace name and project name when using this option.

Syntax

   stride [options]

Each command line option that accepts an argument should be entered with a space between the option and its corresponding arguement; i.e.

stride -o argument --option1 argument1

Any warnings or errors that occur during execution are written to the standard output device.

Options

Option	Description
--version	Prints version information to the console.
--database arg	Specifies the name of an existing STRIDE database (.sidb) file that will be used for test execution. This can be a relative or absolute path. If the path contains one or more spaces, it must be enclosed in quotes.
--device arg	Specifies the parameters to be used to connect to the target device (i.e. TCP:host:port or COMport:rate:mode). For example: TCP:localhost:8000 COM7:28800:8N1 /dev/ttyS2:57600:8N1
--timeout arg (=0)	Specifies a watchdog timeout (in seconds) per single test execution step. Default value is 0. (0 = infinite timeout)
-r [ --run ] arg (=/(*))	Specifies a list of Test Units to execute and their order of execution with optional report grouping by suite. You may specify this option many times on the command line to include multiple groupings in a single test. A named Test Suite may be specifed more than once to run it multiple times. See Stride Executable#Input for more details. Default value is all Test Units.
-u [ --upload ] arg (=full)]	Specifies an upload of results to STRIDE Test Space. Arg specifies type of upload; Use "full" unless you are performing an incremental upload. (Other valid values are incomplete/incremental/complete). Default value is full.
--testspace arg	Specifies the root STRIDE Test Space URL and credentials. (i.e. https://mycompany.stridetestspace.com@user:pwd)
--project arg	Specifies the name of the STRIDE Test Space project to which the results will be uploaded
--space arg	Specifies the name of the STRIDE Test Space project's test space.
--name arg	Specifies the name under which the results will be uploaded to STRIDE Test Space
--list	Lists all Test Units in the specified STRIDE database to standard out.
--diagnostics	Performs a set of built-in diagnostic tests on the target. See Verifying_Installation for test details.
-o [ --output ] arg	Specifies the local file to which results will be written.
-O [--options_file] arg	Specifies a file from which the program reads command line options. The format is the same as the command line except that options may be split across multiple lines.

Environment Variables

The following environment variables are recognized by the application and their values used as shown if set. Any value specifed by an environment variable will be overridden if the corresponding value is specified onn the command line.

STRIDE_DEVICE

specifies the --device argument

STRIDE_TESTSPACE_URL

specifies the --testspace argument

STRIDE_TESTSPACE_PROJECT

specifies the --project argument

STRIDE_TESTSPACE_SPACE

specifies the --space argument

Examples

Refer to Running Unit Tests for additional examples.