A comprehensive design and maintenance environment for test program sets

A software program called CoMETS (comprehensive design and maintenance environment for test program sets), which gives the test designer a powerful tool to develop test programs free from the encumbrances imposed by the test language and target tester, is discussed. CoMETS uses language-neutral graphical symbols to express the flow of a test sequence, detail the expression of individual tests, create and edit test libraries, etc. An overview of the approach is given, and the characteristics of a good tool set are examined. The CoMETS tool set is described, and a simple test program using CoMETS is considered. The savings realized are discussed, and four scenarios typically encountered in test-program-set development that were readily handled by CoMETS are illustrated