SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING AND TESTING COMPUTERS

• US 20070220487A1
• Filed: 06/28/2006
• Published: 09/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chen, Li-Ping, Wu, Jian
• Granted Patent: US 7,844,950 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/124
• 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

A system for diagnosing and testing computers includes a graphical user interface tier (10), an invoking logic tier (20), and a test logic tier (30). The graphical user interface tier offers users a graphical user interface to show the progress and results of testing hardware components and generating diagnosis configuration files in accordance with a selected computer hardware component as needed; the invoking logic tier invokes the test logic tier in accordance with the diagnosis configuration files; and the test logic tier includes a test items module (12), the test items module includes a plurality of sub-modules which run to test different computer hardware components after invoked by the invoking logic tier.

Claims

1. A system for diagnosing and testing computers, comprising:

a graphical user interface tier, offering users a graphical user interface to show the progress and results of testing hardware components and generating diagnosis configuration files in accordance with a selected computer hardware component as needed;

a test logic tier, the test logic tier comprising a test items module, the test items module comprising a plurality of sub-modules which run to test different computer hardware components respectively; and

an invoking logic tier, for invoking the sub-modules of the test logic tier in accordance with the diagnosis configuration files generated by the graphical user interface tier.

2. The system as described in claim 1, wherein the test logic tier further comprises a parser module, a progress module, a common module, and a test arithmetic module, which can be invoked by each of the sub-modules of the test logic tier.

3. The system as described in claim 2, wherein the test logic tier further comprises test items configuration files and test items help files that can be parsed by the parser module, the test items configuration files and the test items help files comprise parameters for testing the hardware components.

4. The system of diagnosing and testing computers as described in claim 2, the test items module includes a central processing unit sub-module.

5. The system as described in claim 2, wherein the progress module is a dynamic link library which records test progress and logs.

6. The system as described in claim 2, wherein the common module is a dynamic link library, which contains test portions common to all the sub-modules of the test logic tier.

7. The system as described in claim 1, wherein the invoking logic tier includes a command line interface tool module for invoking the sub-modules of the test logic tier in accordance with the configuration files.

8. A system for diagnosing and testing computers comprising:

a first tier, comprising a plurality of sub-modules for testing different computer hardware components correspondingly;

a second tier, for invoking the sub-modules of the first tier; and

a third tier offering graphical user interface to show testing progress and testing results of testing hardware components;

wherein the third tier is separated from the first tier and second tier.

9. The system as described in claim 8, wherein the first tier further comprises a parser module, a progress module, a common module, and a test arithmetic module, the test arithmetic module comprises a plurality of test algorithms sub-modules corresponding to relative computer hardware components, after invoking the parser module, the progress module, and a corresponding testing algorithm of the test arithmetic module, the sub-modules can test a corresponding hardware component.

10. The system as described in claim 9, wherein the parser module is a dynamic link library developed using extensible markup language.

11. The system as described in claim 9, wherein the first tier further comprises test items configuration files and test items help files that can be parsed by the parser module, the test items configuration files and the test items help files include parameters for testing the hardware components.

12. The system as described in claim 8, wherein the second tier comprises a command line interface tool module for invoking sub-modules for testing the hardware components of the first tier.

13. The system as described in claim 12, wherein the third tier offers a plurality of icons corresponding to the hardware components respectively and generates diagnosis configuration files in accordance with a selected icon, the command line interface tool module of the second tier invokes a sub-module of the first tier in accordance with the diagnosis configuration files.

14. The system as described in claim 8, wherein the third tier supports second development using different programming languages.

15. A system for diagnosing and testing hardware components of computers, comprising:

a test logic tier comprising a test items module which has a plurality of sub-modules for testing the hardware components respectively, test item configuration files and test items help files containing parameters corresponding to the relative hardware components, a parser module for parsing the test item configuration files and test items help files, and a test arithmetic module comprising a plurality of test algorithms sub-modules corresponding to the relative computer hardware components;

an invoking logic tier for invoking the sub-modules of the test items; and

a graphical user interface tier for offering users a graphical user interface to show testing results of the hardware components.

16. The system as described in claim 15, wherein the test logic tier further comprises a progress module for recording test progress and logs.

17. The system as described in claim 16, wherein the test logic tier further comprises a common module containing common test parts of the sub-modules.

18. The system as described in claim 16, wherein the invoking logic tier includes a command line interface tool module for invoking the sub-modules for testing the hardware components of the test logic tier.

19. The system as described in claim 18, wherein the graphical user interface tier offers a plurality of icons corresponding to the hardware components respectively and generates diagnosis configuration files in accordance with a selected icon, the command line interface tool module invokes a sub-module of the first tier in accordance with the diagnosis configuration files.