Universal Ada Test Language (UATL) to support real-time software/system integration and factory/maintenance fault isolation [military avionics]

The Universal Ada Test Language (UATL), developed to encourage, and provide support to, the use of Ada in eventually replacing ATLAS, BASIC, and other special-purpose test control languages for generating automatic test programs, is presented. The UATL consists of a set of modular, portable, Ada packages that define a higher-level test language that supports the generation of test programs in Ada. These packages provide the user with a complete complement of standardized reusable test functions that shorten the test-program-generation effort. These test functions include interactive test operator controls, real-time test data stimulus/response, data recording, and data reduction. The UATL also allows the sophisticated user to develop any unique test functions at the Ada code level