Automatizing the online filter test management for a general-purpose particle detector

This paper presents a software environment to automatically configure and run online triggering and dataflow farms for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It provides support for a broad set of users, with distinct knowledge about the online triggering system, ranging from casual testers to final system deployers. This level of automatization improves the overall ATLAS TDAQ work flow for software and hardware tests and speeds-up system modifications and deployment.