Provider Acceptance Test Suite A tool that validates vendor and IBM providers before integrating them into the IBM Storage Management Product Portfolio
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Provider Acceptance Test Suite Description

IBM's System x, p, z, and i servers are shipped with vender hardware. Vendors provide management instrumentation (providers) to configure and manage their hardware. These standards-based providers play a significant role in systems management.IBM also delivers systems and storage management solutions in storage domains such as SCM, Derector, and DSA. All these management solutions depend heavily on the CIM/SMI-S-based providers developed by respective vendors and within IBM for various storage devices used in IBM servers. This means that quality of service given by these management solutions extensively depends on quality of providers of CIM (Common Information Model) and SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative Specification).Provider Acceptance Test Suite helps to effectively validate vendor providers and help them to improve the quality of their product and, therefore, the quality of IBM's management solutions. Provider Acceptance Test Suite validates CIM providers against SMI-S profiles and can comprehensively test the providers, including property and associations implemented by the provider. The tool can also be configured to define a set of rules for profile validation. A framework is provided for writing user-defined test cases, including stress testing, performance testing, property testing, profile testing, and indication testing. IBM teams and IBM vendor (external) teams are actively using Provider Acceptance Test Suite; they have found it useful for end-to-end provider and acceptance testing. This single comprehensive tool allows developers and testers to test the SMIS providers for all the functionality and to generate reports useful to various stakeholders. Provider developers can use the tool for quicker analysis of profile implementation and unit testing. Give Provider Acceptance Test Suite a try to fully assess it's capabilities!

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