RACK Assist Tools

(Automated Software Structure Ingestion and System Testing)

This toolset provides for the ability to do various automated tasks, guided by the core RACK ontology. These tools are designed to be run directly from the command-line or as part of the build process of the software being certified.

These tools additionally provide an alternate data ingestion method to the CSV file + RACK cli tooling. Either is appropriate to use, based on the needs at the time.

• databin

  This directory contains Linux wrappers for various tools that can be used to emit auxiliary data into .rack files during the build process. This data can then be used to establish instance data in the RACK database for that built software tree.

  Add the databin directory to the beginning of the PATH variable before running a software build under Linux.

• bin

  This directory provides various tools to ingest the data written to the .rack files by the databin tools or other tools, as well as generate analysis reports and automated checks on the ingested data.

  These tools require SWI Prolog to be installed, and can be run in any environment (Linux, MacOS, and Windows) by adding them to the PATH variable.

  See the RACK-Assist-Bin-Tools wiki page for more details.