Enterprise test system having run time test object generation

• US 20040078684A1
• Filed: 09/06/2001
• Published: 04/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Empirix Incorporated (Empirix Holdings I, Inc.)
• Inventors: Thompson, Christopher, Friedman, George E., Glik, Michael V., Makar-Limanov, Sergei
• Granted Patent: US 7,171,588 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/38
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3414 Workload generation, e.g. scripts, playback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3636 by tracing the execution of the program
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/87 Monitoring of transactions

Abstract

An enterprise test system for synthesizing complex objects to exercise an application under test.

Claims

1. A method for creating complex objects for exercising an application under test, comprising:

generating a test driver to exercise methods associated with a component of the application under test;

providing a user with a plurality of options for selecting how objects for the test driver are created and initialized with test data;

automatically generating test code corresponding to the user'"'"'s instructions; and

running the test driver.

2. The method according to claim 1, further including using reflection to determine methods associated with the component.

3. The method according to claim 1, further including providing a web page to the user for displaying object creation options.

4. The method according to claim 1, further including creating a data table from which object test data is retrieved.

5. The method according to claim 1, further including enabling a user to select a rule for generating test data.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the rule includes generating random data.

7. The method according to claim 1, further including generating test objects without passing parameters.

8. A method for synthesizing complex objects, comprising:

examining application code to identify portions in which a predetermined object and associated sub-objects are created; and

generating a plurality of threads each of which attempts to determine how the application code creates the object.

9. The method according to claim 8, further including determining how the application code creates the object by identifying the application code creating the sub-objects with primitive data types.

10. The method according to claim 8, further including creating a data table from which object test data is retrieved.

11. The method according to claim 8, further including enabling a user to select a rule for generating object test data.

12. The method according to claim 8, further including terminating respective ones of the plurality of threads that are unsuccessful for greater than a predetermined amount of time.

13. A method for synthesizing complex objects, comprising:

reflecting a complex object to determine fields associated with the complex object;

using Java serialization to serialize the complex object to allocate memory space for the complex object;

creating a plurality of instances of the complex object;

initializing the plurality of complex objects with test data; and

load testing the complex object.

14. The method according to claim 13, further including displaying a plurality of options to a user for selecting the test data.

15. The method according to claim 13, further including creating a data table from which object test data is retrieved.

16. The method according to claim 13, further including enabling a user to select a rule for generating test data.