There was no class this week for IPPD so instead the Quarks met online to work on ATOM! All team members joined a call and separated into breakout rooms based on our two development teams, Framework and UI.

Integration between the two teams has already started and will be a continuous process. We recently integrated the current Framework with the current UI and we are able to call our testing scripts to run with working functions and UI to start, stop, pause, and resume tests. Approval was received to move forward with Powershell which will be our current main resource for automation. Our scripts can now also run on the Virtual Machines that reflect their end use case environment. As the report page UI work continues, we have started creating the test creation page. This will allows users of ATOM to create their own tests on the spot ideally without needing any previous coding experience. The current approach to this is to create scripts that have different functions like building blocks, and the user can select which blocks they want and in what order they should occur. This is what we refer to as modularization of the automated testing process. Our prototype test creation page from the fall shows our initial vision allowed for steps to be added and deleted with the preferable action and result for each step.