AUTOMATIC TEST TOOL FOR WEBPAGE DESIGN WITH MICRO-BROWSERS ON MOBILE PLATFORMS

• US 20100146488A1
• Filed: 12/08/2008
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Chih-Yung, Huang, Shu-Fong, Huang, Ellen
• Granted Patent: US 8,819,630 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/128
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Architecture that provides a convenient and effective test tool for testing and ensuring that webpages using micro-browsers are sufficiently designed and operational. A task library is developed for manipulating browsers on a handheld device, and includes one or more seamless methods that operate the different browsers in the same way. Seamless virtual functions that manipulate different micro-browsers include, but are not limited to browser launch, exiting a browser, navigating to a home page, clearing a cache, navigating to a webpage, reloading a webpage, getting the current info for a webpage, navigating back to a webpage, checking a page title, and capturing a screen, for example. Device features can also be manipulated to ensure consistency across the testing process.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented test system, comprising:

a library of tasks for controlling different micro-browsers when running on different handheld web-accessible devices; and

a test framework for executing the tasks to test display of a webpage in the different micro-browsers when operating on the handheld web-accessible devices.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a compare component for comparing display expected results of the webpage to display test results to verify design of the webpage.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the compare component trims a screenshot of the webpage prior to comparison.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a logging component for logging test information and capturing screen dump information.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a script component for writing a test script that accesses one or more tasks of the library to run a micro-browser on a particular handheld web-accessible device and test the webpage in the micro-browser of the particular handheld device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the library includes tasks that launch a micro-browser and exit the micro-browser.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the library includes tasks that navigate to a home webpage, navigate to a particular webpage, and navigate back to a previous webpage.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the library includes tasks that reload a webpage and clear a cache.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the library includes tasks that get current information, check a webpage title, and capture a screen.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the handheld web-accessible devices include a smart cell phone.

11. A computer-implemented test system, comprising:

a library of tasks for controlling different micro-browsers when running on different handheld web-accessible devices;

a test framework for executing the tasks to test display of a webpage in the different micro-browsers when operating on the handheld web-accessible devices;

a compare component for comparing expected display results of the webpage to test display results to verify design of the webpage; and

a logging component for logging test information and capturing screen dump information.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the compare component trims a screenshot of the webpage prior to comparison.

13. The system of claim 11, further comprising a script component for writing a test script that accesses one or more tasks of the library to run and control a micro-browser on a particular handheld web-accessible device and test the webpage in the micro-browser of the particular handheld device.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the library includes one or more methods, micro-browser properties, and device properties defined in the tasks that launch a micro-browser, exit the micro-browser, navigate to a home webpage, navigate to a particular webpage, and navigate back to a previous webpage.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the library includes one or more methods, micro-browser properties, and device properties defined in the tasks that reload a webpage, clear a cache, get current information, check a webpage title, and capture a screen.

16. A computer-implemented method of testing a webpage, comprising:

developing a library of tasks that control different micro-browsers when running on different handheld devices;

creating tasks for the library that control the handheld devices;

executing tasks to test display of a webpage in the different micro-browsers when operating on the handheld devices; and

processing results of the test to determine quality of design of the webpage.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

creating a screen dump image of a webpage test result based on a task;

trimming the screen dump image; and

comparing the trimmed screen dump image of the webpage test result to an expected display webpage image to determine the quality of the webpage design.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising defining coordinates that preserve webpage content during the test.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising writing a test script that exercises manipulation of a micro-browser on a device when presenting a webpage.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the tasks executed include launching a browser, navigating to a home webpage, navigating to a different page, navigating back to a previous webpage, reloading a webpage, checking a webpage title, getting current webpage information, capturing a screen of a webpage, clearing a cache, and exiting the browser.