The Automated Test Framework (ATF)

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The ATF is a testing framework written for ROS which supports executing integration and system tests, running benchmarks and monitor the code behaviour over time. The ATF provides basic building blocks for easy integration of the tests into your application. Furthermore the ATF provides everything to automate the execution and analysis of tests as well as a graphical web-based frontend to visualize the results.

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• Architecture
  • Overview
  • Recording data
  • Analysing metrics
  • Visualising results
• Implemented metrics
• Installation
• Using the ATF (by examples)
• Contributing to the ATF
• Acknowledgements

Architecture

Overview

There is a presentation for a brief ATF introduction.

Recording data

Analysing metrics

Visualising results

Implemented metrics

The following metrics have been implemented so far:

Metric	Description	Unit	Mode (span, snap)
time	The time metric measures the elapsed time.	[sec]	span
publish_rate	The publish_rate metric measures the publising rate of a topic	[1/sec]	span
interface	The interface metric checks if an interfaces (nodes, publishers, subscribers, service servers, action servers) matches its specification.	[bool]	snap
tf_distance_translation	The tf_distance_translation metric measures the cartesian distance of a TF frame with respect to another frame at the end of a testblock.	[m]	snap
tf_distance_rotation	The tf_distance_rotation metric measures the cartesian angular distance of a TF frame with respect to another frame at the end of a testblock.	[m]	snap
tf_length_translation	The tf_length_translation metric measures the cartesian path (distance integrated over time) of a TF frame with respect to another frame.	[m]	span
tf_length_rotation	The tf_length_rotation metric measures the cartesian angular path (angular distance integrated over time) of a TF frame with respect to another frame.	[m]	span
user_result	The result for the user_result metric can be set from the user within the application.py.	[any]	span, snap

Further metrics (in development):

Metric	Description	Unit	Mode (span, snap)
resources	The resources metric measures the resource consumption of a node on the operating system level (CPU, RAM, IO).	[%], [MB], [MB/sec]	snap
path_velocity	The path_velocity metric measures the cartesian velocity (distance differntiated over time) of a TF frame with respect to another frame.	[m/sec]	span
distance	The distance metric measures the cartesian distance between two TF frames.	[m]	snap
obstacle_distance	The obstacle_distance metric measures the distance between two meshes	[m]	snap
message_match	The message_match metric checks if a message content matches its desired content.	[bool]	snap

Installation

For installation instruction see ATF Installation.

Using the ATF (by examples)

For examples how to use the ATF see ATF Examples

Contributing to the ATF

For examples how to extend the ATF with your own contribution see ATF Contribution

Acknowledgements

The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 609206 Factory-in-a-Day and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy under grant agreement no 01MA13001A ReApp.