Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Pulse or data error handling – Digital logic testing
Patent
1997-02-26
1999-12-14
Trammell, James P.
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Pulse or data error handling
Digital logic testing
714 35, 714 38, 714 36, 395701, G06F 1100, G06F 1520
Patent
active
060028696
ABSTRACT:
A test automation system for performing functional tests of a software program. The system includes a plurality of test functions each configured to test a discrete component of the software program. a user-defined test specification associated with the program provides state definitions that specify a desired test approach for each type of test procedure to be performed on the program. A test engine creates all test cases appropriate for a user-selected test type and controls the software program, applying the test functions and state definitions in accordance with the test specification. All test-specific and software program-specific data are located in the user-defined test functions and specifications while all generic test system processing resides in the test engine. The test specifications are preferably implemented in modifiable text files to maintain concurrency with an evolving software program. The test engine creates all possible permutations and combinations for performing a desired test. These test specification includes such items as the states that the software program may possess, the test functions required to transfer between one state and other possible states, information pertaining to the values that specific inputs may have, etc. During operation, the test engine generates test histories indicating the results of the test performed in accordance with one of the test specifications. The contents of the test histories include determination made by the test functions executed in accordance with an associated test specification.
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Nguyen Cuong H.
Novell Inc.
Trammell James P.
LandOfFree
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