Glossary of Terms

API

Application Programming Interface.

IDE

An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.

Test Resource

Test chassis, test module, and test port, both hardware and virtual are referred to as test resources. A user must have the ownership of a test resource before be able to perform testing.

TGA

Traffic Generation and Analysis.

XOA

Xena OpenAutomation

XOA Chimera Core

Xena OpenAutomation Chimera Core provides high-level Python APIs to administer Chimera, Xena’s network impairment emulator.

XOA CLI

XOA Command-Line Interface. Xena provides a rich set of CLI commands for users to administer test chassis for test automation. Read more here.

XOA Core

Xena OpenAutomation Core is an open test suite framework to execute XOA Test Suites as its plugins.

XOA Python API

The foundation of Xena OpenAutomation is its Python API (XOA Python API) that provides interfaces for engineers to manage Xena hardware and virtual test equipment.