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Chapter 4 Writing Tests 53
Testing Application Provisioning With
OTA Tests
Over-the-air (OTA) tests are MIDP-specific tests that verify an OTA application
provisioning implementation. This includes obtaining, installing, and removing
applications (MIDlet suites), and enforcing security requirements. Each OTA test
has an associated application (a MIDlet suite) that is downloaded from the
provisioning server and is installed and launched on the test device.
When developing an OTA test, a test writer must write classes for both the server
and client test components as well as create an appropriate test description file.
Server Component of an OTA Test
The server component of the OTA tests must extend the
com.sun.tck.midp.lib.OTATest class. This is the base class for OTA tests and
provides convenience methods that install, execute, and remove applications called
MIDlet suites.
There are different kinds of OTA tests with each kind of OTA test having one or
more of the following functional requirements:
■ Requires the successful installation of the MIDlet suite
■ Requires that the MIDlet suite installation fail
■ Executes the MIDlet suite
■ Does not execute the MIDlet suite
After the execution of the OTA test, the installed MIDlet suite must be removed. The
server component of the typical OTA test invokes the install, run and remove
methods to install, execute, and remove the MIDlet suite. See “Example of OTA
Test” on page 59 for an example of a server component.
Client Test Component of an OTA Test
The client test component, called the MIDlet suite, contains the actual test case. The
MIDlet suite must be in the format of a JAR file or a Java Application Descriptor
(JAD) file so that it can be downloaded from the provisioning server and installed
and launched on the test device. The creation of the JAR file or JAD file is usually