CTF v1.9 Release

v1.9

09/12/2024

• CTF Core Changes
  • Update plugins loading sequence for customized plugins to override test instructions.
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes.
• CTF Plugins Changes
  • Updates to SP0 Plugin
    • Fix the issue of SP0_SendCommand not time out when the SP0 response is lost.
    • Increase sp0 telnet connect retry counters for longer files uploading time to targets.
  • Updates to CFS Plugin
    • Add a new instruction ClearTlmPacket to clear received tlm messages of given MID for test verification.
    • Allow CheckTlmValue instruction to search tlm value in attribute array.
    • Fix the issue of CheckEvent taking too long to time out when receiving overwhelmingly large numbers of tlm messages.
    • Add a backward optional argument for CheckTlmValue instruction to search telemetry messages received before this instruction execution.
    • Add a new feature for SendCfsCommand instruction to resolve the macros defined by any registered cfs targets and the macros in the header attributes.
    • Add a new feature to allow setting the CPU affinity of Linux targets by taskset command.
  • Updates to Variable Plugin
    • Make explicit type conversion for CCDD Macro/Const to avoid log warnings.
    • Add an option argument to count the occurrence of a string in file for SearchStr instruction.
• CTF Tool and Scripts Changes
  • Update requirement.txt.
  • Remove sample_cfs_workspace submodule from repository.
  • Improve CTF tests scripts.

CTF v1.8.2 Release

v1.8.2

11/20/2023

• CTF Core Changes
  • Add an optional logging configuration csv_tlm_log. If True, CTF creates an additional tlm CSV log file.
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes.
• CTF Plugins Changes
  • Updates to CFS Plugin
    • Display full data attributes of nested structures in tlm logs.
    • Resolve user-defined variables for all test instructions.
    • Fix a regression with shutdown and restart of CFS targets in the same test script.
    • Change CFS shutdown behavior to only shut down targets automatically if the target was started by StartCfs.

CTF v1.8 Release

v1.8

09/27/2023

• CTF Core Changes

  • Fix the timing mismatch between CTF run time and computer calendar time.

  • Fix the issue of EVS/telemetry log files not always being readable during runtime.

  • Minor improvements and bug fixes.

• CTF Plugins Changes

  • Add a new Trick Plugin

    • Add three instructions FreezeTrickSim, SetTrickVariable and CheckTrickVariable to interface to a Trick variable server.

    • Add a new trick section in CTF config files to configure the Trick variable server interface.

  • Updates to CFS Plugin

    • Fix a regression in the CFS Plugin that caused CTF to not communicate with CFS targets which were not started via StartCfs.

    • Allow CheckEvent args to accept literal values in functions.

    • Log additional timing information in tlm log file.

    • Add optional payload args to SetUserVariableFromTlmHeader to filter telemetry packets

  • CCSDS Plugin

    • Fix CCSDS v1 message header issue.

    • Fix a regression issue of CCDD JSON reader not reusing known data types referenced by name.

  • Updates to Gateway Plugin

    • Improve SendCfsCommandWithAggregatedPayload instruction to allow different targets in payload, and its syntax.

    • Fix inner command header attribute assignment issue of test instruction.

• CTF Tool and Scripts Changes

  • Consolidate unit tests for open source release and internal release.

  • Improve CTF test environment installation.

  • Update test scripts and sample cFS workspace.

  • Update CTF documents.

CTF v1.7 Release

v1.7

01/24/2023

• CTF Core Changes

  • Improve label resolution in conditional branching and looping instructions.

  • Add a new test_variable section in config file to initialize user-defined variables.

  • Fix a bug in importing OS environment variables when reading config files.

  • Fix an error when disabling the last instruction in a test.

  • Minor improvements and bug fixes.

• CTF Plugins Changes

  • Updates to CFS Plugin

    • Log telemetry packet errors and the raw data to the tlm log file.

    • Fix killing CFS processes for SSH targets.

    • Fix capturing CFS standard output file in test results for SSH targets.

  • CCSDS Plugin

    • Add detection of inconsistent data type definitions in CCDD JSON files.

    • Add support for arrays of multi-byte primitives.

  • Updates to Variable Plugin

    • Add an optional argument variable_type to SetUserVariableFromTlm and SetUserVariableFromTlmHeader instructions for explicit type conversion.

• CTF Editor Changes

  • Add tolerance support for the editable fields of CheckTlmValue instruction.

• CTF Tool and Scripts Changes

  • Update CTF build environment: replace Anaconda with PyEnv.

  • Provide a script tools/re_order.py to order test scripts attributes consistently.

  • Update example test scripts.

  • Update sample cFS workspace.

  • Update CTF documents.

CTF v1.6 Release

v1.6

07/20/2022

• CTF Core Changes

  • Update test script naming conventions and log formatting to be consistent.

  • Various logging improvements.

  • Update source code for the new sample cFS workspace.

  • Minor improvements and bug fixes.

• CTF Plugins Changes

  • Updates to Validation Plugin

    • Add a new instruction InsertUserComment to allow testers to insert comments into test logs for post-test analysis.

    • Modify SearchStr and SearchNoStr instructions to support regex search.

  • Updates to Variable Plugin

    • Add target as an argument to SetUserVariableFromTlm and SetUserVariableFromTlmHeader instructions.

    • Add an optional argument variable_type to SetUserVariable instruction for explicit type conversion.

    • Minor improvements and bug fixes: convert bytes array to string in SetUserVariableFromTlm; allow variable to be array index in instruction arguments.

  • Updates to CFS Plugin

    • Allow SendCfsCommandWithRawPayload to work with any MID and command code.

    • Minor improvements and bug fixes.

• CTF Tool and Scripts Changes

  • Update setup_ctf_env.sh to fix the issue of incompatible packages for Anaconda3 installation.

  • Update CTF Editor (GUI) to highlight invalid json scripts.

  • Improve documents and test scripts to certify CTF.

  • Modify the upgrade script in ctf/tools to automatically update CTF config files and test scripts for v1.6 compatibility.