Testing multi-protocol message and connection applications with reusable test components sharing dynamically generated data and limited hardware resources

• US 20040073656A1
• Filed: 10/11/2002
• Published: 04/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Sathe, Abhay A., Booth, Stephen C.
• Application Number:
  US10/268,670
• Publication Number:
  US 20040073656A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/31907 Modular tester, e.g. controlling and coordinating instruments in a bus based architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements

Abstract

A test system tests multi-protocol message and connection oriented applications with reusable test components that share dynamically generated data and limited hardware resources. The test system includes a test agent, which includes a test scheduler scheduling tests, and an enhanced sequence test including a sequence of test components dynamically generating and sharing the data among the test components. The test components are re-usable. A data store such as a memory stores the dynamically generated data for use by a later component test, in a user-defined name-value combination.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a test system testing multi-protocol message and connection oriented applications with reusable test components that share dynamically generated data and limited hardware resources.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the test system comprises a test agent, said test agent comprising:

an enhanced sequence test comprising a sequence of test components dynamically generating and sharing the data among the test components.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the test components are re-usable.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the enhanced sequence test further contains a data store storing the dynamically generated data.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the data store stores the dynamically generated data in name-value combinations.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the name portions of the name-value combinations are user-defined.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the multi-protocols include protocols for which a test can be written that can produce data that can be parsed for dynamic content.

8. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the test components test SMS, WAP, HTTP, and Email.

9. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the test components comprise sequence tests.

10. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the enhanced sequence test includes a hierarchy of test components, and the data is dynamically generated and shared among the test components included in the hierarchy.

12. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

executing, by an enhanced sequence test, a sequence of test components dynamically generating and sharing the data among the test components.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

reusing the test components in various sequence tests included in the enhanced sequence test.

11. A method of testing devices, comprising:

testing by a test system that tests multi-protocol message and connection oriented applications with reusable test components that share dynamically generated data and limited hardware resources.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

storing the dynamically generated data in a memory in a name-value combination.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the name of the name-value combination is user-defined.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

combining operations in a hierarchy in the enhanced sequence test, said operations including test components and sequence tests.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

dynamically-generating and sharing the data among the operations included in the hierarchy.

18. A computer-readable medium storing a program which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute the functions comprising:

testing by a test system that tests multi-protocol message and connection oriented applications with reusable test components that share dynamically generated data and limited hardware resources.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, further comprising:

executing, by an enhanced sequence test, a sequence of test components dynamically generating and sharing the data among the test components.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, further comprising:

reusing the test components in various sequence tests included in the enhanced sequence test.

21. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, further comprising:

storing the dynamically generated data in a memory in a name-value combination.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the name of the name-value combination is user-defined.

23. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, further comprising:

combining operations in a hierarchy in the enhanced sequence test, said operations including test components and sequence tests.

24. The computer-readable medium of claim 23, further comprising:

dynamically generating and sharing the data among the operations included in the hierarchy.