Apparatus and method for detecting if a test is running

• US 20060265631A1
• Filed: 03/18/2005
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Potts, Matthew P.
• Application Number:
  US11/084,765
• Publication Number:
  US 20060265631A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/48
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/263 Generation of test inputs, e.g. test vectors, patterns or sequences ; with adaptation of the tested hardware for testability with external testers

Abstract

In one embodiment of the invention, a method for detecting if a test case is running, includes: submitting a selected test case as a job into a queuing system; assigning a job name to the job; assigning, by the queuing system, a job number for the job; sending a query regarding the job number in order to obtain a description of a particular job associated with the job number; and if the description indicates that the particular job associated with the job number is running or pending, then matching a particular job name of the particular job with a test name of the selected test case, wherein a match between the particular job name and the test name indicates that the selected test case is running or pending.

Claims

1. A method for detecting if a test case is running, the method comprising:

submitting a selected test case as a job into a queuing system;

assigning a job name to the job;

assigning, by the queuing system, a job number for the job;

sending a query regarding the job number in order to obtain a description of a particular job associated with the job number; and

if the description indicates that the particular job associated with the job number is running or pending, then matching a particular job name of the particular job with a test name of the selected test case, wherein a match between the particular job name and the test name indicates that the selected test case is running or pending.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the queuing system is a hub-based queuing system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the queuing system is a distributed queuing system.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

queuing the job into the queuing system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the job name is assigned to the job by a user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the test case provides a stimulus for testing a design-under-test in a test environment.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the queuing system comprises a computing device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

checking a database in the queuing system to obtain the description of the particular job associated with the job number in the query.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the query is sent from a computer in response to a command from a user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the test name is known to a user.

11. An apparatus for detecting if a test case is running, the apparatus comprising:

means for submitting a selected test case as a job into a queuing system;

means for assigning a job name to the job;

means for assigning, by the queuing system, a job number for the job;

means for sending a query regarding the job number in order to obtain a description of a particular job associated with the job number; and

means for matching a particular job name of the particular job with a test name of the selected test case, wherein the description indicates that the particular job associated with the job number is running or pending, and wherein a match between the particular job name and the test name indicates that the selected test case is running or pending.

12. An apparatus for detecting if a test case is running, the apparatus comprising:

a device configured to store at least one test case;

a queuing system configured to receive the test case as a job and to assigning a job number for the job; and

a computer configured to receive a query regarding the job number in order to obtain a description of a particular job associated with the job number;

wherein if the description indicates that the particular job associated with the job number is running or pending, and wherein if a match occurs between a particular job name of the particular job and a test name of the test case, then the test case is running or pending.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the queuing system is a hub-based queuing system.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the queuing system is a distributed queuing system.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the queuing system is configured to queue the job.

16. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the job name is assigned to the job by a user.

17. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the test case provides a stimulus for testing a design-under-test in a test environment.

18. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the queuing system comprises a computing device.

19. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the queuing system is configured to check a database to obtain the description of the particular job associated with the job number in the query.

20. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the query is sent from a computer in response to a command from a user.

21. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the test name is known to a user.