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18. Instrumentation and Validation

Andy Leonard1  
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Farmville, VA, USA
 

Instrumentation is a sub-science of engineering which originally meant collecting physical data from industrial processes. In software engineering, instrumentation refers to the art and science of surfacing key indicators of the settings, state, and performance of software.

Validation is checking values to make certain the values are in a usable state. In the context of the Execute Catalog Package Task, certain properties must be configured using non-empty and non-default values.

In this chapter, we will add instrumentation and validation to the Execute ...

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