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<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_why_megatest">Why Megatest?</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>This book is organised as three sub-books; getting started, writing tests and reference.</p></div>
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<div class="title">License</div>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>This document is part of Megatest.

    Megatest is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    Megatest is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with Megatest.  If not, see &lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt;.</pre>
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<h2 id="_why_megatest">Why Megatest?</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The Megatest project was started for two reasons, the first was an
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copy the run data to destination area megatest.db
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mark the run records as MOVED, do not remove the run data on disk
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accessing the data would be by running dashboard in the satellite area
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future versions of Megatest dashboard should support displaying areas in a
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some new controls would be supported in the config
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[setup] &#8658; allow-runs [no|yes]  &#8656;= used to disallow runs
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[automigrate] &#8658; areaname target=%/%/%; runname=%; age=30d &#8656;= automigrate
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accessing the data would be by running dashboard in the satellite area
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The default is the graphviz based tree but if your tests don&#8217;t view
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<pre>[setup]
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<h3 id="_dashboard_settings">Dashboard settings</h3>
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<pre>[setup]
nodot</pre>
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<h3 id="_capturing_test_data">Capturing Test Data</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In a test you can capture arbitrary variables and roll them up in the
megatest database for viewing on the dashboard or web app.</p></div>
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<div class="title">In a test as a script</div>
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<pre>$MT_MEGATEST -load-test-data &lt;&lt; EOF
foo,bar,   1.2,  1.9, &gt;
foo,rab, 1.0e9, 10e9, 1e9
foo,bla,   1.2,  1.9, &lt;
foo,bal,   1.2,  1.2, &lt;   ,     ,Check for overload
foo,alb,   1.2,  1.2, &lt;=  , Amps,This is the high power circuit test
foo,abl,   1.2,  1.3, 0.1
foo,bra,   1.2, pass, silly stuff
faz,bar,    10,  8mA,     ,     ,"this is a comment"
EOF</pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Alternatively you can use logpro triggers to capture values and inject them
into megatest using the -set-values mechanism:</p></div>
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<div class="title">Megatest help related to -set-values</div>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>Test data capture
  -set-values             : update or set values in the testdata table
  :category               : set the category field (optional)
  :variable               : set the variable name (optional)
  :value                  : value measured (required)
  :expected               : value expected (required)
  :tol                    : |value-expect| &lt;= tol (required, can be &lt;, &gt;, &gt;=, &lt;= or number)
  :units                  : name of the units for value, expected_value etc. (optional)</pre>
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<h3 id="_dashboard_settings">Dashboard settings</h3>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">yes|no or not defined</p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-center valign-top" ><p class="tableblock">faststart</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">All direct file access to sqlite db files</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">yes|no or not defined</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">Default=yes, suggest no for central automated systems and yes for interactive use</p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">yes|no or not defined</p></td>
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">All direct file access to sqlite db files</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">yes|no or not defined</p></td>
<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">Default=yes, suggest no for central automated systems and yes for interactive use</p></td>
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but since triggers can be called in various contexts not all variables are
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