CONCURRENT CROSS BROWSER TESTING

• US 20110289489A1
• Filed: 05/20/2010
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Subramanian, Manikandan, Subramanian, Praveenkumar, Abou-Khamis, Kamal, Balasubramanian, Venkadaraman, Kumar, Balaji
• Application Number:
  US12/784,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20110289489A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/135
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3696 Methods or tools to render software testable

Abstract

A system may include a plurality of test environments, each test environment being configured to simulate user actions according to a test configuration. The system may further include a test simulator device including a processor in selective communication with the plurality of test environments and configured to receive a user action; send the user action to a first of the plurality of test environments having a first test environment; and send the user action to a second of the plurality of test environments having a second test environment.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a plurality of test environments, each said test environment being configured to simulate user actions according to a test configuration; and

a test simulator device including a processor in selective communication with said plurality of test environments and configured to;

receive a user action;

send said user action to a first of said plurality of test environments having a first test environment; and

send said user action to a second of said plurality of test environments having a second test environment.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of said first and second test environments includes an operating system version and a web browser version, and said first and second test environments differ by at least one of operating system version and web browser version.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said test simulator device is further configured to send commands to each of said first and second test environments, said commands being configured to cause said first and second test environments each to execute said user action at substantially the same time.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said test simulator is further configured to:

receive a request to launch a first test environment and a second test environment;

launch said first test environment and a second test environment according to said launch request;

receive from said first test environment a first session identifier indicative of said first test environment; and

receive from said second test environment a second session identifier indicative of said second test environment.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said test simulator device is further configured to receive test result data from said first and second test environments.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said test simulator device is further configured to analyze said test result data from said first and second test environments to determine differences in execution of said test case between said first and second test environments.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein said test simulator device is further configured to send said test result data to a database in selective communication with said test simulator device.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a database in selective communication with said test simulator device, wherein said database is configured to selectively retrieve said user action from a plurality of stored user actions upon receipt of a request from said test simulator device.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface in selective communication with said test simulator and configured to:

display a plurality of user actions according to logical name;

receive a selection of said user action from said plurality of displayed user actions; and

send an indication of said selected user action to said test simulator for simulation.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface in selective communication with said test simulator and configured to:

receive a selection of a test case;

display a user action included in said test case;

receive a logical name for said displayed user action; and

associate said logical name with said displayed user action.

5. The system of claim 5, wherein said test simulator is further configured to:

send said user action to said first of said plurality of test environments according to said first session identifier; and

send said user action to said second of said plurality of test environments according to said second session identifier.

12. A method, comprising:

receiving a test case including at least one recorded user action at a test simulator device including a processor;

sending, from the test simulator device, a first user action included in the test case to a first test environment running an application under test and to a second test environment running the application under test;

receiving a first result indicating that said first user action was simulated on the application under test by said first test environment;

receiving a second result indicating that said first user action was simulated on the application under test by said second test environment; and

sending a second user action included in the test case to the first and second test environments upon receiving both the first and the second results.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first result and the second result are each step results indicative of the result of execution of the first user action on the application under test by the associated test environment.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein each step result comprises a screen capture of the application under test after the execution of the first user action.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising comparing the screen capture of the application under test after execution of the first user action in the first test environment with the screen capture of the application under test after execution of the first user action in the second test environment.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising analyzing the first result and the second result to determine differences in execution of the test case between said first and second test environments.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving an indication of a plurality of test environments on which to simulate the test case.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

sending the user action to the first of the plurality of test environments according to a first session identifier associated with the first of the plurality of test environments; and

sending the user action to the second of the plurality of test environments according to a second session identifier associated with the second of the plurality of test environments.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving a request to launch the first test environment and the second test environment;

launching the first test environment and the second test environment according to the launch request;

receiving from the first test environment the first session identifier indicative of the first test environment; and

receiving from the second test environment the second session identifier indicative of the second test environment.

20. A computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions configured to cause a processor to:

receive a test case including at least one recorded user action;

send a first user action included in the test case to a first test environment running an application under test and to a second test environment running the application under test;

receive a first result indicating that the first user action was simulated on the application under test by the first test environment;

receive a second result indicating that the first user action was simulated on the application under test by the second test environment; and

send a second user action included in the test case to the first and second test environments upon receiving both the first and the second results.

21. The computer-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the first result and the second result are each step results indicative of the result of the execution of the first user action on the application under test by the associated test environment.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein each step result comprises a screen capture of the application under test after the execution of the first user action.

23. The computer-readable medium of claim 22, further comprising instructions configured to cause the processor to compare the screen capture of the application under test after execution of the first user action in the first test environment with the screen capture of the application under test after execution of the first user action in the second test environment.

24. The computer-readable medium of claim 22, further comprising instructions configured to cause the processor to analyze the first result and the second result to determine differences in execution of the test case between the first and second test environments.

25. The computer-readable medium of claim 22, further comprising instructions configured to cause the processor to receive an indication of a plurality of test environments on which to simulate the test case.