To : Supervisor Group
From : D.F. Hartley
Attached is a check list of various items in Mark 13 which require particular testing. Inevitably this list is neither comprehensive nor complete. Against each item I have placed the initials of the person responsible for seeing that adequate testing is carried out, either by himself, or by another member of the group. An up-to-date copy of this list is displayed in Room 9, upon which we shall mark off the items as they are accomplished.
While some items are trivial, others are very substantial; but in all cases, the person responsible must be satisfied that each item has been tested as thoroughly as reasonably possible before stating that testing is complete.
23 January 1967.
| Responsibility | Tested (date, Initials) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Tape Scheduler | ||
| 1.1 | Messages (both input and output) | PRR | |
| 1.2 | Various configurations | PRR | |
| 1.3 | General hammering | PRR | |
| 2. | Multiplexer Routines | ||
| 2.1 | BREAK key (under all conditions) | JCV | |
| 2.2 | Signalling characters (under all conditions) | JCV | |
| 2.3 | Editing characters (under all conditions) | JCV | |
| 2.4 | Translation tables | JCV | |
| 2.5 | Well Route | JCV | |
| 2.6 | 1027 extracode | JCV | |
| 2.7 | 1030's, 1040's extracodes where relevant | JCV | |
| 2.8 | Input/output general hammering | JCV | |
| 3. | Filing System | ||
| 3.1 | All user facilities | AGF | |
| 3.2 | Restart - testing/running modes | AGF | |
| 3.3 | Dumping | AGF | |
| 3.4 | Service routines | AGF | |
| 3.5 | 1033 extracode | BL | |
| 4. | Job Descriptions | ||
| 4.1 | Password | BL | |
| 4.2 | INPUT (P assumed, FOLLOWS assumed, FROM FILE) | BL | |
| 4.3 | OUTPUT (TO FILE) | BL | |
| 4.4 | TAPE (FILE, NEW FILE, READ FILE, BLOCKS) | BL | |
| 4.5 | 1034 extracode (including errors) | BL | |
| 5. | Input/Output Extracodes | ||
| 5.1 | Output stream termination (stop op) | BL | |
| 5.2 | Delayed faults | DFH | |
| 5.3 | 1035 extracode | BL | |
| 5.4 | 1043 extracode | BL | |
| 5.5 | General hammering | BL | |
| 6. | Faults and Monitor | ||
| 6.1 | J2 traps (1150, 1151 extracodes) | DFH | |
| 6.2 | 1111, 1113 extracodes | PRR | |
| 6.3 | 1114 extracode | DFH | |
| 6.4 | Dumping (1115, 1116 extracodes) | PRR | |
| 6.5 | Undumping (bootstrap) | PRR | |
| 6.6 | System monitor (various output conditions) | PRR | |
| 7. | PHASING and OP store | ||
| 7.1 | 1130, 1140 extracodes | MJTG | |
| 7.2 | 1143, 1146, 1147 extracodes (all options) | MJTG | |
| 7.3 | 1167, 1171 extracodes | MJTG | |
| 7.4 | J2 lockout and blocklets | MJTG | |
| 7.5 | Tape transfers to J2 space | MJTG | |
| 8. | Miscellaneous | ||
| 8.1 | Supervisor restart | BL | |
| 8.2 | Channel failures and other improvements | RMN | |
| 8.3 | Status job messages | DFH | |
| 8.4 | Kill job messages | BL | |
| 8.5 | 1126, 1141, 1145 extracodes | DFH | |
| 8.6 | 1127 extracode | BL | |
| 9. | COMMAND | ||
| 9.1 | Entry and general command structure | DB | |
| 9.2 | Built-in commands (all) | DB | |
| 9.3 | Faults (especially bad ones) + error messages | DB | |
| 10. | CONTROL | ||
| 10.1 | Logging-In (wide range of cases) | JMHH | |
| 10.2 | Logging-out (forced and explicit) | JMHH | |
| 10.3 | Controlling large jobs (wide range of cases) | JMHH | |
| 11. | System Programs | ||
| 11.1 | III | DB | |
| 11.2 | EDIT (check compatibility with CCP) | JMHH | |
| 11.3 | SIGNAL | DFH | |
| 11.4 | All other systems should be compatible between Marks 12 and 13. This needs verifying, and if not, they must be retested by their authors: | ||
| AUTOCODE | HB | ||
| FORTRAN | HB | ||
| E2 | IRJ | ||
| E3 | SB | ||
| MACRO | HB | ||
| CPL | IRJ | ||
| CRYST | JCM |
Copyright © 1967 University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Distributed by permission. Thanks to Barry Landy, Roger Needham and David Hartley for giving permission to distribute these documents. Thanks to Barry Landy for lending me the paper document from which this was scanned. Any typographical errors probably arose in the course of OCR.
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