OtfProjectStructure

Overview

The OTF provides two containers to help you efficiently organize and manage all items, such as Packages, Documents and Settings. These containers are called

• Solution and
• Project.

The Solution Explorer can be used to view and manage a solution along with the projects inside and their associated items.

The picture below shows the overall storage structure inside the OTF. Beginning from right hand side a solution contains one ore more projects, a project contains one ore more packages, a package contains one ore more documents, a document contains one ore more procedures and a procedure contains one ore more activities. It is possible to call procedures or use global declarations inside the same document (In-Document reference), outside the document and inside the same project (Cross-Document reference) and outside the project (Cross-Project reference).

OTF Storage Structure

Furthermore a project can be packed into a PTX.

Solution

A solution contains one or more projects. Solutions group projects together which are needed for the test task as a whole. OTF automatically generates a solution when a new project is created. OTF stores the definition for a solution in two files: .otfSln and .otfSuo.

Project

Projects are used in a solution to logically manage, build and debug Documents and Project Settings. The executable output of a project is usually a dynamic-link library (.dll) file or a program (.exe), see project Output folder. OTF provides pre- or self-defined Project Templates. You can use these templates to create the basic project container and a preliminary set of items that you might need in order to develop your test application.

PTX

Project Structure

A PTX is a project packed in a ZIP archive (Format see ISO 22901 PDX). A PTX can be used as a container for OTX file deployment or as a library for importing in other projects.

A PTX can be created inside the Solution Explorer via the context menu of a project node.

Project Structure

A project consists of a project settings file *.otfPrj and the following folders:

Folder Name	Content
APPs	External applications (*.exe or *.dll) using for Device Mapping or Context Mapping, see Project Settings.
HMI	Settings of the HMI-Extension e.g. Screen-Mapping, see Project Settings
i18n	Settings of the I18N-Extension e.g. multilingual text library, see Project Settings
Logging	Settings of the Logging-Extension, see Project Settings
Measure	Settings of the Measure-Extension e.g. Device Mapping, see Project Settings
ODX	Settings of the DiagCom-Extension, see Project Settings
OTX	Contains the OTX Packages or Documents
OTX-Backup	Contains the OTX backup files, see OTF Settings
Output	Contains all generated files for executing
PTX	Contains PTX libraries used inside the project
Quantity	Settings of the Quantity-Extension e.g. ODX files with UNIT-SPECS, see Project Settings

The only mandatory folder of a project is the OTX folder. All other folders can be omitted. Not specified settings will be adjust to default values.

References outside a Document

All elements inside an OTX Document can be used from another document, if the elements have a sufficient Visibility. The following elements can be refered

1. Procedures
2. Global Declarations
3. Validities
4. Signatures

Before a global entity can be referred the related document shall be imported, see Imports. If the document is outside the project, a reference to the outside project should be added, see Project Settings.