The Protocol Test Framework (PTF) is designed to support Microsoft Protocol Test Suites for both Windows and Office Protocol Interoperability testing. It implements the fundamentals to support Protocol Test Suite, including logging, checker, configuration and etc.

PTF is based on Windows platform. You should install the following list of software in order to build PTF from source code.

• .Net framework 4.0 or higher
• Wix toolset v3.7 or higher
• Visual Studio or Visual Studio test agent, version 2012 or higher

After you clone a copy of this repo, change to the ProtocolTestFramework directory:

cd ProtocolTestFramework

Change to src directory and run build.cmd

cd src
build.cmd [formodel]

After the build succeeds, ProtocolTestFrameworkInstaller.msi should be generated in the folder ProtocolTestFramework\src\Bin\deploy\installer.

If you need to develop a protocol test suite using Model Based Testing tool Spec Explorer, you should install Spec Explorer first and then build PTF with the option formodel.

You can find samples of how to develop a protocol test suite using PTF here.

• User Guide describes the features of PTF, and how to use them to develop a new protocol test suite.

You can find contributing guide here.

PTF is under the MIT license.