WHQL question (NDIS IM)

NTDEV
1

Hello,

I need to automate WHQL NDIS IM test process and I’d like to ask you if you
approve following steps or something is missing:

  1. I intend to use 3 machines

  • 1 server (Win2k3 SP2) with DTM Controller + DTM Studio

  • 1 machine for testing on x86 OSes (XP, 2k3, Vista, Win7)

  • 1 machine for testing on x64 OSes (2k3, Vista, Win7)

  1. Testing on x86 and x64 machines would run parallelly

  2. When a test is completed (say x86 XP), machine would switch itself to
    next OS (x86 2k3) and test is ran again

Thanks,

Petr

2

The logic below is OK. The only potential problem is that (at least in the
past.) the DTM Controller keeps track of its clients by MAC address. This
causes a problem when an x86 machine is re-imaged from (for example) XP to
2K3. Although the newly imaged machine is running 2K3 the DTM Controller may
associate the machine as being an XP client.

The manual approach to solving this confusion is to use the DTM Studio to
delete the “old” DTM Client before reimaging to the next OS. Deleting the
DTM Client does not delete the test results associated with testing on that
client.

IIRC for NDIS IM (Unclassified test) the test must be run twice: once with
service INF selected and second time with miniport INF selected. Tests run
in each case are identical. Seems like a waste of time, but hey!

Good luck,

Thomas F. Divine

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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Petr Kurtin
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:01 AM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] WHQL question (NDIS IM)

Hello,

I need to automate WHQL NDIS IM test process and I’d like to ask you if you
approve following steps or something is missing:

  1. I intend to use 3 machines

  • 1 server (Win2k3 SP2) with DTM Controller + DTM Studio

  • 1 machine for testing on x86 OSes (XP, 2k3, Vista, Win7)

  • 1 machine for testing on x64 OSes (2k3, Vista, Win7)

  1. Testing on x86 and x64 machines would run parallelly

  2. When a test is completed (say x86 XP), machine would switch itself to
    next OS (x86 2k3) and test is ran again

Thanks,

Petr

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