Testing is Rocket Science Not Brain Surgery

This is a code dump of a XML file generator I threw together to create multiple child nodes under what was essentially a header in the XML file, along with generating multiple files iteratively. The actual number of iterations was controlled by the number of iterations specified in the run-time settings, the number of child nodes to create is a parameter. I’ll only include a slice of code in this post, the entire file should be available for download with the post. This was done to support a custom web services testing effort involving electronic medical record(EMR) transfers.Create Sync Data File

Create_Test_File(char *header_filename, char *output_filename, int merge_count, int max_merge_count)
{
int count, output,patient_record_length,result_record_length,tail_record_length;

int result_lines,num_of_result_lines;

int total = 0;

char buffer[20000];

char * buffer_manual;

long h_file_stream;
long o_file_stream;

num_of_result_lines = atoi(lr_eval_string(“{Max_Num_Result_Lines}”));

//char * filename = “c:\\readme.txt”;

// Open the file with read access
/*if (merge_count == max_merge_count) {

if ((h_file_stream = fopen(header_filename, “rb”)) == NULL) {

lr_error_message (“Cannot open %s”, header_filename);

return -1;

}

// Read until end of file

while (!feof(h_file_stream)) {

// Read 1000 bytes while maintaining a running count

count = fread(buffer, sizeof(char), sizeof(buffer), h_file_stream);

lr_output_message (“%3d read”, count);

// Check for file I/O errors

if (ferror(h_file_stream)) {

lr_output_message (“Error reading file %s”, header_filename);

break;

}

total += count; // Add up actual bytes read

}

// Display final total

lr_output_message (“Total number of bytes read = %d”, total );*/

if ((o_file_stream = fopen(output_filename, “ab”)) == NULL) {

lr_error_message (“Cannot open %s”, output_filename);

return -1;

}

//Write Patient Header
/*output = fwrite(buffer, sizeof(char), total, o_file_stream);
//fwrite(&sd, sizeof(struct student_data), 1, file);

total = 0;

if (output > 0) {

lr_output_message (“Successfully wrote a header of size %d bytes”, output);
}*/

//buffer_manual = lr_eval_string(“\n\r”

lr_advance_param(“Root0_Part1”);

buffer_manual = lr_eval_string(“\n\r”
“\n\rFA03C9202EF348F484C42923B21B521C”
“\n\r”
“\n\rPERFTEST”
“\n\rPatient-{PatientName_Serial}”
“\n\r1980-06-26T00:00:00”
“\n\r”
“\n\rMyMiddleName”
//”\n\r13179999999”
//”\n\r1980-06-26T00:00:00”
“\n\retc”
“\n\r”
“\n\rcdf.gen.female”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\rN”
“\n\r”
//”\n\r”
//”\n\rY”
//”\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r“);

// Close the file stream

/*if (fclose(h_file_stream))
{

lr_error_message (“Error closing file %s”, header_filename);

}*/

//} //terminate loop for header and result qualifier info
//Write CDF Patient Data

patient_record_length = strlen(buffer_manual);

output = fwrite(buffer_manual, sizeof(char), patient_record_length, o_file_stream);
//fwrite(&sd, sizeof(struct student_data), 1, file);

total += output; // Add up actual bytes wrote

if (output > 0) {

lr_output_message (“Successfully wrote a patient record of size %d bytes”, total);
}

total = 0;

for (result_lines = num_of_result_lines; result_lines >= 0; result_lines–)

{

lr_advance_param(“Root2_Part1”);
lr_advance_param(“Root2_Part2”);

buffer_manual = lr_eval_string(“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\rcdf.res.measurement”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r2011-02-13T04:10:49”
“\n\r”
“\n\r0”
“\n\rN”
“\n\rN”
“\n\rN”
“\n\r”
“\n\rcdf.dsrc.device.insulinpump”
“\n\r”
“\n\r79/2030670”
“\n\r”
“\n\rcdf.dat.bg”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\rcdf.res.monitoring.upr.bolus”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r2011-02-13T04:10:49”
“\n\r”
“\n\r1”
“\n\rY”
“\n\rN”
“\n\rN”
“\n\r”
“\n\rcdf.dsrc.device.insulinpump”
“\n\r”
“\n\r79/2030670”
“\n\r”
“\n\rcdf.dat.insulin.dose”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r“);

//Write Results
result_record_length = strlen(buffer_manual);

output = fwrite(buffer_manual, sizeof(char), result_record_length, o_file_stream);
//fwrite(&sd, sizeof(struct student_data), 1, file);

total += output; // Add up actual bytes wrote

if (output > 0) {

lr_output_message (“Successfully wrote a result record of size %d bytes”, total);
}

total = 0;

lr_output_message (“Successfully wrote a result record number %d “, result_lines);

}

buffer_manual = lr_eval_string(“\n\r”
“\n\r“);

//Close Results Node
result_record_length = strlen(buffer_manual);

output = fwrite(buffer_manual, sizeof(char), result_record_length, o_file_stream);
//fwrite(&sd, sizeof(struct student_data), 1, file);

total += output; // Add up actual bytes wrote

if (output > 0) {

lr_output_message (“Successfully closed a result record of size %d bytes”, total);
}

total = 0;

// Close the file stream

if (merge_count == 0) {

buffer_manual = lr_eval_string(“\n\r”
“\n\r”
“\n\r”);

tail_record_length = strlen(buffer_manual);

output = fwrite(buffer_manual, sizeof(char), tail_record_length, o_file_stream);

lr_output_message (“Successfully closed a result file”);

}
if (fclose(o_file_stream)) {

lr_error_message (“Error closing file %s”, output_filename);

}

return 0;
}