Tool Test Information

The tools listed below are available for beta testing by the TWG. To report a bug or request an improvement, please go to the applicable open source repository. To submit new test case(s) or update of existing test case(s) for future regression testing, please email emily.s.law@jpl.nasa.gov.

Validate Tool

This release candidate version of the Validate Tool (v1.6.0-SNAPSHOT) was built from the latest source code and includes the new features and bug fixes described in the release notes as well as those changes from any point builds since last major/minor update. Here is a consolidated list of those changes:

  • New Features:
    • Document multi-threaded architecture for maximized performance #43
    • Enhance content validation to decrease validation time to <=50% of current benchmark #30
    • Update context name check to throw WARNING instead of ERROR #102
    • Enhance context validation by verifying that all name/type attribute values correspond to names denoted in context products #15
    • Add new flag (–target-manifest) for user to provide a manifest (file) of file/directory paths to validate #50
    • Add flag (–skip-context-validation) to temporarily disable context validation #47 #99
    • Update content validation to fail when a space character is used when an ASCII_Integer type is specified #9
    • Add capability for user to input JSON file with additional context products #28
    • Investigate and fix memory leak causing validate crash on large bundles #39
    • Add new flag (-u) to retrieve and use latest context products from EN Registry #24
    • Deprecate -f and -m flags #23
  • Bug fixes:
    • Context validation needs to be updated to include all possible product type use cases #62 #90
    • Large Data File Uncaught Exception Error #8
    • JAXB warning message with Java 9+ #3
    • Update launcher and pom to better handle catalog files #70 #71 #72 #73
    • Content validation does not work properly #55
    • Incorrect package declarations under gov.nasa.tools.web.ui #52
    • JAVA Path does not handle whitespaces in MAC as it used to #37
    • Add missing core.properties dependency #34
    • Validation succeeds despite throwing exception #33
    • Registered context product resource lists only one of multiple instrument or target multiple types #107
  • Other Updates:
    • Create new “error message decoder ring” for common validate issues and how to solve them #97
    • Check that referenced context products are valid #45
    • Perform benchmarking on validate to enable documenting of system requirements #41
    • Improve documentation about usage of flags in config file with latest flags #20
    • Prepare repository for Maven Central deployment #31
    • Investigate and fix memory leak causing validate crash on large bundles #39
    • Update code and docs to reference open source repo #26 #65 #21
    • – Test and document benchmark metrics from improved content validation #80
      – Implement content validation performance improvements #79

The Validate Tool website has the TAR/GZIP and ZIP packages available for download, as well as Installation and Operation documentation.

Transform Tool

This release candidate version of the Transform Tool (v1.10.0-SNAPSHOT) was built from the latest source code and includes the new features and bug fixes described in the release notes as well as those changes from any point builds since last major/minor update. Here is a consolidated list of those changes:

  • New Features:
    • None
  • Bug fixes:
    • None
  • Other Updates:
    • Update dependencies and build to work in open source Github

The Transform Tool website has the TAR/GZIP and ZIP packages available for download, as well as Installation and Operation documentation.

PDS View

This release candidate version of the PDS View (v0.4.0) was built from the latest source code and includes the new features and bug fixes described in the release notes as well as those changes from any point builds since last major/minor update. Here is a consolidated list of those changes:

  • New Features:
    • None
  • Bug fixes:
    • None
  • Other Updates:
    • Update dependencies and build to work in open source Github.

The TAR/GZIP and ZIP packages available for download from the Github release page, as well as Installation and Operation documentation.