action

Certain actions may be required from the test executing personnel (e.g. to change the environmental conditions of testing like the temperature, voltage of the power feeding etc.). The required action may be defined as a free text string.

In TITAN, the argument of the statement is placed in the log file. As an extension to the standard, it is possible to refer also to constants, variables or templates in the argument. Every element of the argument may be repeated.

action ( " free_text_string " [,constanst_ref] [,variable_ref] [,template_ref] );

free_text_string is copied to the log file. It may contain numbers and letters from the BASIC LATIN and the LATIN-1 SUPPLEMENT character sets.

TITAN specific extensions to the standard:

constanst_ref refers to a constant. The value of the constant appears in the log file.
variable_ref refers to a variable. The actual value of the variable is copied to the log file.
template_ref refers to a template. The log file will contain the actual field values of the referred template.

Example 1:

action ("Note the following value: ", v_qqon)

The text between quotation marks will be added to the log file followed by the value of the variable v_qqon.

BNF definition of action