A universal framework for online data validation

This paper describes a universal framework for online data validation process management developed as part of the activities performed for the construction and test of the CMS (Technical Proposal, CERN/LHCC 94-38, 1994.) crystal calorimeter. Our framework allows the parallel development of language-independent data validation tasks automatically taking care of the synchronization of the activities and avoiding any complex user interface. The only requirement for the data validation tasks consists in the fact that their output must be available as HTML-formatted text files.