Validation Rules

For successful or partially successful completion of importing of a csv, a number of validation rules have to be observed. Some rules applied across all test types, but other are either ignored or their output is downgraded. The lowest validation test type is for AutoMap™, where the minimum criteria is applied during the import phase; this assumes that an AutoMap™ will be conducted using the imported Map file before any other testing is carried out. Intermittent testing has the highest import validation criteria. The import provides a Validation Report to help guide the User to creating a perfect csv. The Validation Rules are as follows:

RefNo	Rule	Reference Type	Message Type	Test Type
1	File does not exist	File	Fatal	All
2	File fails to read	File	Fatal	All
3	File does not contain the essential column headings	File	Fatal	Import
4	UUT name is too long	UUT	Error	Import
5	UUT name contains unsupported characters	UUT	Error	Import
6	Columns found without headings	TestPoint	Error	Import
7	Test point is allocated to >1 node	TestPoint	Error	INT
8	Test point is given multiple nomenclatures	TestPoint	Error	INT
9	Test point assigned to >1 group	TestPoint	Error	INT
10	Test point defined as multiple categories	TestPoint	Error	INT
11	Nomenclature is used by >1 test point	TestPoint	Error	INT
12	Interconnections are not on the same node	TestPoint	Error	INT
13	Node has multiple/ambiguous grounds (not including Extra grounds for large nodes or blanks). Each node must have one and only one of either NodeGnd or FixedNodalGnd	Node	Error	INT
14	Node has higher ratio of test points to grounds than is safe for intermittence testing (150:1)	Node	Error	INT
15	Node has no ground defined	Node	Error	INT
16	Node number is not valid	Node	Error	All
17	Nomenclature has no defined test point number	TestPoint	Error	Import
18	Valid test points have undefined Node. Map is not useable until AutoMap is carried out.	UUT	Warning	All except AutoMap
19	Non-blank points found on the blank node	Node	Warning	Import
20	Node has no ground defined	Node	Warning	All except INT
21	Node has no ground defined	Node	Warning	All except AutoMap
22	Node has more test points than is suitable for good performance (15:1)	Node	Warning	INT
23	Blank Node has test points that are not blank. Map is not useable until AutoMap is carried out.	Node	Warning	All except AutoMap
24	Interconnection Nomenclature does not exist	TestPoint	Warning	Import
25	Nomenclature is too long	TestPoint	Warning	Import
26	Roadmap is too long	TestPoint	Warning	Import
27	Cable Ident is too long	TestPoint	Warning	Import
28	Signal Type name is too long	TestPoint	Warning	Import
29	UUTConnector name is too long	TestPoint	Warning	Import
30	UUTConnectorPin is too long	TestPoint	Warning	Import
31	GXY Image file (<UUT-name>.png) not found	File	Comment	All
32	Node has multiple/ambiguous signal types	Node	Comment	Import
33	Test point has GXY X or Y out of range (>-1, < GXY size or 8192 if no GXY image file found)	TestPoint	Comment	All
34	Test point has GXY W or H out of range >0, < 100)	TestPoint	Comment	All
35	Test point has multiple GXY values	TestPoint	Comment	INT
36	Test profile ignores sample but sample size is >1	TestPoint	Comment	Import
37	Test profile requires more than one sample but sample size is not set	TestPoint	Comment	Import
38	Test profile will take more than 1.0 sec to complete	TestPoint	Comment	Import
39	Test point notes are too long	TestPoint	Comment	Import
40	Test point interconnection remarks are too long	TestPoint	Comment	Import
41	Empty GXY Sizes set to default (8)	TestPoint	Comment	All

The latest Validation Rules are included in a worksheet called 'Validation Rules' in the Spreadsheet Template called IFD_Map-File_Template(Ver2.1.x).xls