SAME-DISPLAY COMPARISON OF CONTENT FOR DIFFERENT RENDITIONS OF A SINGLE COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20120042281A1
• Filed: 08/12/2010
• Published: 02/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vmware LLC (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: VMware, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: GREEN, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,566,744 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

An method for use in a computer system for determining correspondence between at least two renditions of a single computer program includes enabling the identification of a selected screenshot related to navigation within the computer program and, as a response to the identification, accessing a reference screenshot captured during navigation within a first rendition and a corresponding screenshot captured during navigation within a second rendition. The reference screenshot and the corresponding screenshot are presented on a display, thereby enabling a same-display comparison of content of the reference and corresponding screenshots.

Claims

1. In a computer system, an method of determining correspondence between at least two renditions of a single computer program comprising:

enabling identification of a selected screen related to navigation within a computer program;

in response to the identification, accessing a reference screenshot captured during navigation within a first rendition of the computer program and a corresponding screenshot captured during navigation within a second rendition of the computer program; and

presenting both the reference screenshot and the corresponding screenshot on a display, thereby enabling a same-display comparison of content of the reference and corresponding screenshots.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein enabling identification of the selected screen includes enabling user input of an identification of a specific feature of the computer program, the reference screenshot being a capture of instance image data generated during running of the first rendition of the computer program when the specific feature is invoked, the corresponding screenshot being a capture of instance image data generated during running of the second rendition when the specific feature is invoked.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising automated acquisition and storage of a plurality of reference screenshots during the navigation within the first rendition and automated acquisition and storage of a plurality of corresponding screenshots during the navigation within the second rendition, the acquisitions being based upon capturing each content object intended for display to an end-user of the computer program, the content objects including menus.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the second rendition of the computer program is a human-language translation of the first rendition.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising enabling designation of a particular human language from among a plurality of human languages to which the computer program has been translated, the designation thereby identifying the second rendition.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein accessing and presenting the reference and corresponding screenshots are executed independently of operations either by or upon the computer program.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein accessing the reference and corresponding screenshots includes accessing a storage of screenshots systematically captured during automated processing in navigations within the first rendition and within the second rendition.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein accessing the storage includes accessing Universal Resource Locators (URLs) uniquely assigned to each screenshot in the storage.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein presenting both the reference and corresponding screenshots includes fixing the screenshots in a side-by-side relationship on the display.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising displaying a sequence of execution steps related to running the computer program, wherein the sequence of execution steps identifies program navigation for display of the content of the reference and corresponding screenshots, the displaying of the sequence being simultaneous with and adjacent to the presenting of both the reference and corresponding screenshots.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising enabling user inputs indicative of correlations between the content of the reference and corresponding screenshots and associating the user inputs with the screenshots for subsequent access.

12. The method of claim 9 further comprising presenting a menu of alternative corresponding screenshots which correspond to the reference screenshot but were captured during navigations within further renditions of the computer program.

13. Computer programming embedded in a computer-readable storage medium, the computer programming being executable to perform a method comprising:

recognizing user inputs as identifications of selected screens accessible as a consequence of navigation within a computer program of interest;

accessing and displaying a specific reference screenshot as a response to recognition of a user input identifying a selected screen related thereto, the specific reference screenshot being a capture from a prior navigation within a first rendition of the computer program; and

accessing and displaying, with the specific reference screenshot and as a response to the recognition of the user input, a corresponding screenshot which is accessible as a consequence of corresponding captures during prior navigation within a second rendition of the computer program of interest, the specific reference screenshot and the corresponding screenshot being on a same display to enable a same-display comparison of content of the specific reference and corresponding screenshots.

14. The embedded computer programming of claim 13 further being executable to enable the user inputs as identifications of particular features of the computer program of interest, the identifications thereby being recognitions of the selections of the reference screenshots from a storage of the reference screenshots and corresponding screenshots.

15. The embedded computer programming of claim 13 wherein the first and second renditions are different human-language translations of the computer program of interest.

16. In a computer system, an method comprising:

at least partially controlling systematic navigation within a computer program under test by use of a screen capture script;

capturing reference screenshots of content objects by automated processing of the screen capture script, the content objects including menus available upon navigation within the computer program under test;

assigning a unique identifier to each of the reference screenshots; and

storing the reference screenshots such that each reference screenshot is accessible on a basis of the unique identifiers.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising using the screen capture script to control systematic navigation within a second rendition of the computer program under test, so as to capture corresponding screenshots of the content objects, thereby enabling subsequent comparisons of the reference screenshots against the corresponding screenshots.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising linking each reference screenshot with the corresponding screenshot of the same content object, such that each linked reference and corresponding screenshot is displayed in unison on a single display.

19. The method of claim 17 wherein assigning the unique identifier to each of the reference screenshots includes assigning the identifiers as Universal Resource Locators (URLs) to each pair that is defined by one of the reference screenshots and its corresponding screenshot, thereby enabling direct access to each pair of reference and corresponding screenshots.