Data processing: software development – installation – and managem – Software program development tool – Testing or debugging
Reexamination Certificate
2004-10-15
2009-06-02
Dam, Tuan Q (Department: 2192)
Data processing: software development, installation, and managem
Software program development tool
Testing or debugging
C715S786000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07543278
ABSTRACT:
Various new and non-obvious apparatus and methods for ensuring a user interface element is visible within an automated user interface test environment are disclosed. One of the disclosed embodiments is a method for locating a parent element of the user interface element and then making the user interface object visible using top-down scrolling, bottom-up scrolling, expanding, or a combination of all three. Top-down scrolling scrolls the parent element until the user interface element becomes visible. Bottom-up scrolling first locates a grandparent element. The parent element then scrolls until the user interface element is within the parent object. The grandparent element is then scrolled until the parent element is visible within the grandparent element, the parent object is then scrolled until the user interface element is visible within the grandparent element. This exemplary embodiment further confirms that the user element interface made visible can be selected by ensuring that the window where the user interface element resides is ready for user input and is not covered by another object.
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Bui Hanh T
Dam Tuan Q
Klarquist & Sparkman, LLP
Microsoft Corporation
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