METHOD AND DEVICES FOR URL COMMAND TESTING AND FOR SCENARIO TESTING

• US 20080127097A1
• Filed: 11/23/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Wang, Jun Hua, Deng, Bai Chen, Zhao, Song Lin
• Application Number:
  US11/944,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20080127097A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/124
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3684 for test design, e.g. generating new test cases

Abstract

The present invention discloses a testing method of URL command, comprising the steps of: determining the type of said URL command; according to the determined type, adding test data to the URL command to form a test command; sending said test command to a server by using a browser and receiving contents returned from said server; and displaying the returned contents by said browser. The present invention further discloses a scenario testing method by using URL command testing in combination with GUI testing, a device and a system of implementing the above methods.

Claims

1. A method of testing Uniform Resource Locator (URL) commands, the method comprising the steps of:

determining a type of a URL command;

according to the determined type, adding test data to the URL command to form a test command;

sending said test command to a server using a browser and receiving contents returned from said server; and

displaying the returned contents using said browser.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said step of determining the type of said URL command comprises the steps of:

decomposing command request code of said URL command; and

according to a request type obtained from said decomposition, determining whether the type of said URL command is a GET type or a POST type.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said step of adding test data to form a test command comprises:

when it is determined that said URL command is a GET type, appending to the URL command test parameters and a hostname of a corresponding server, assembling the parameters and hostname into a URL command which can be directly used as said GET test command by said browser and loading it to said browser; and

when it is determined that said URL command is a POST type, submitting a POST type form into which the test data is assembled to said browser as said POST test command using an application interface of said browser for said POST type.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said step of processing POST type comprises the steps of:

assembling said POST-type URL command and test parameters into a temporary HTML form of POST request type; and

automatically submitting said temporary HTML form to the browser using said application interface for POST request type,

wherein said POST type URL command contains a URL in which the hostname is complete.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a verification step for acquiring said server response content using an application interface of said browser, so as to verify using a display of said browser whether the returned result conforms to the test requirement.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein said verification step comprises at least one of URL command verification and Graphical User Interface verification.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said step of adding test data to form a test command adds the test data to form an HTTP request which an XMLHTTPRequest module in said browser can support.

8. The testing method according to claim 7, wherein said step of sending said test command to said server and receiving contents returned from said server using said browser comprises sending, using the XMLHTTPRequest module, an HTTP request which said XMLHTTPRequest module can support.

16. A scenario testing method for testing said scenario by using Uniform Resource Locator (URL) command testing in combination with Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing, the method comprising the steps of:

splitting said scenario into a plurality of tasks in accordance with different applications, such that each task corresponds to one application of one type;

determining a task type as a URL command test task or a GUI test task for each task;

executing the testing in the sequence of tasks of said scenario, and performing the testing in accordance with the testing method of claim 1 when the task type is said URL command test task;

wherein output data of said task is saved for use with subsequent tasks.

17. The scenario testing method according to claim 16, wherein output data of said task is saved by using at least one of a hash table, context content, and an array.

18. The scenario testing method according to claim 16, further comprising a verification step for verifying at least one of a GUI command response and a URL command response result for the final test result of the scenario testing.

9. A testing device of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) command, comprising the steps of:

means for determining a type of said URL command;

test command forming means for adding, according to the determined type, test data to the URL command in order to form a test command; and

a browser for sending said test command to a server and for receiving and displaying returned contents from said server.

10. The testing device according to claim 9, wherein said means of determining the type of said URL command comprises:

decomposing means for decomposing command request code of said URL command;

type determining means for determining, according to a request type obtained by said decomposing means, whether said URL command is a GET type or a POST type.

11. The testing device according to claim 9, wherein said test command forming means comprises:

GET test command forming means for appending, when it is determined that said URL command is a GET type, to the URL command test parameters and a hostname of a corresponding server, piecing them into a URL command which can be directly used as said GET test command by the browser, and loading same to said browser; and

POST test command forming means for submitting, when it is determined that said URL command is a POST type, a POST-type form, into which the test data is placed, to said browser as said POST test command using the application interface of said browser for said POST type.

12. The testing device according to claim 9, further comprising verification means for acquiring said server response content, using an application interface of said browser, to verify by using a display of said browser whether the returned result conforms to the test requirement.

13. The testing device according to claim 12, wherein said verification means performs at least one of URL command verification and Graphical User Interface verification.

14. The testing device according to claim 9, wherein said test command forming means adds test data to form an HTTP request which an XMLHTTPRequest module in said browser can support.

15. The testing device according to claim 14, wherein said browser sends, using said XMLHTTPRequest module, an HTTP request which said XMLHTTPRequest module can support.

19. A scenario testing system for testing said scenario by using Uniform Resource Locator (URL) command testing in combination with Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing, the system comprising:

task splitting means for splitting said scenario into a plurality of tasks in accordance with different applications, such that each task corresponds to one application of one type;

a task execution engine for determining a task type as a URL command test task or a Graphical User Interface test task for each task, executing the testing in the sequence of tasks of said scenario, and performing the testing, wherein when the task type is said URL command test task the task execution engine performs the testing by

determining a type of a URL command,

according to the determined type, adding test data to the URL command to form a test command,

sending said test command to a server using a browser and receiving contents returned from said server, and

displaying the returned contents using said browser; and

a task context engine for saving output data of said task for use of subsequent tasks.

20. The scenario testing system according to claim 19, wherein said task context engine saves output data of said task by using a hash table, context content or an array.

21. The scenario testing system according to claim 19, further comprising a result verification component for verifying at least one of a GUI and a URL command response result for the final test result of the scenario testing.

22. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-readable code that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform the steps of:

determining a type of a URL command;

according to the determined type, adding test data to the URL command to form a test command;

sending said test command to a server using a browser and receiving contents returned from said server; and

displaying the returned contents by said browser.