Method, system and article of manufacture for testing a...

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C717S116000, C717S120000

Reexamination Certificate

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07392506

ABSTRACT:
Various embodiments of a method, apparatus and article of manufacture that identify a boundary of a field of a text-based screen for a test tool are provided. These embodiments allow single test tool to test software applications that have a text-based screen and software applications that have a graphical user interface with Java objects.

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