SYSTEMS AND METHODS PROVIDING A DECLARATIVE SCREEN MODEL FOR AUTOMATED TESTING

• US 20090125826A1
• Filed: 11/17/2008
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alex Elkin, David Haggerty, Scott Opitz
• Original Assignee: Alex Elkin, David Haggerty, Scott Opitz
• Inventors: Elkin, Alex, Opitz, Scott, Haggerty, David
• Application Number:
  US12/272,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20090125826A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2273 Test methods
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3668 Software testing software testing in telephone exchanges H04M3/242, testing of hardware G06F11/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3696 Methods or tools to render software testable

Abstract

Systems and methods for a design and runtime environment provide navigation maps using a declarative model defined by recording actual manipulation of a physical or virtual device. The systems and methods may be used to automatically navigate to application screens eliminating need for a test engineer to provide navigation code.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing an interface to specify at least a source screen and a target screen for a device under test; and

storing in a navigation map a set of one or more commands that specify a transition from the source screen to the target screen.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising recording the set of one or more commands that specify the transition from the source screen to the target screen.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

displaying a virtual device representing the device under test;

recording stimulus from the virtual device to form the set of one or more commands.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein specifying the source screen and the target screen comprise selecting a graphical screen image of the source screen and a graphical image of the target screen.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the navigation map comprises a plurality of transitions between one or more source screens and one or more target screens.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the navigation map comprises a declarative model specifying the transitions.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a graphical representation of the navigation map, the graphical representation including screen images of a set of screens in the navigation map.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation includes an indication of a current screen of the device under test.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation includes graphical indicators of the transitions between the set of screens in the navigation map.

10. A method comprising:

receiving a command that specifies a target screen for a device under test;

determining a current screen for the device under test;

interpreting a navigation map comprising a set of one or more stored commands that specify a transition from the current screen to the target screen.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the command is received as a result of executing test logic.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the command is received as a result of a screen selection within a navigation map editor.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the set of one or more stored commands specify a transition to at least one intermediate screen between the current screen and the target screen.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising issuing the commands to the device under test.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising displaying a graphical representation of the navigation map, wherein the graphical representation includes an indication of the current screen of the device under test.

16. A system comprising:

a test development environment;

a repository communicably coupled to the test development environment;

a navigation map user interface operable to;

receive a specification of at least a source screen and a target screen for a device under test; and

store in the repository a navigation map including a set of one or more commands that specify a transition from the source screen to the target screen; and

a device under test communicably coupled to the test development environment.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising a virtual device module to display a representation of a device under test, the representation including a current screen of the device under test.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the virtual device is operable to receive stimulus that is forwarded to the device under test.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the device under test is an emulated device.