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Testing Q3 based management applications is often a laborious and complex task. The Q3 emulator agent (Q3E) is a tool for improving the effectiveness of testing the semantic functionality of management applications. An emulator agent is able to participate in OSI network management communication as the agent part: an emulator agent is an OSI agent in every sense, but it emulates to be running in a network element. For testing purposes, the operation of emulator agents can be controlled using the Q3 emulator language (QEL) designed to decrease the test case design and implementation effort of management applications. In QEL, managed objects can be created or deleted, their action behaviours can be defined, and the sending of spontaneous events can be caused. Based on QEL definitions, the Q3E is able to respond automatically to requests from management applications. For the management application there is no difference: the agent, whether in network element or an emulator, responds similarly and handles the same managed objects.
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Rossi, K., Lahdenpohja, S. (1995). Testing Management Applications with the Q3 Emulator. In: Sethi, A.S., Raynaud, Y., Faure-Vincent, F. (eds) Integrated Network Management IV. IM 1995. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34890-2_36
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