System, Method, and Apparatus for Automatic Recording and Replaying of Application Executions

• US 20150046909A1
• Filed: 08/12/2013
• Published: 02/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AirBNB Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ligman, Joseph W., Pistoia, Marco, Thomas, Gegi, Ponzo, John
• Granted Patent: US 9,697,108 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites

Abstract

A method comprises receiving data pertaining to a recorded interaction between a test device operating system and an application on a test device, the recorded interaction being based on a user input; compiling the data pertaining to the recorded interaction in a script compiler, the data comprising human-readable action-description language; sending the compiled data comprising human-readable action-description language from the script compiler of the server to a developer device; receiving modified data from the developer device; and sending the modified data from the developer device to the test device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

recording an interaction between a test device operating system and an application, the interaction being based on a user input; and

sending the recorded interaction between the test device operating system and the application to a server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording of the interaction comprises logging data pertaining to the interaction of the user with the test device operating system in an application recording phase.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising testing an initiation of the application recording phase using a visible overlaid control set.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising intentionally disabling the application recording phase.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising compiling a script from compiler templates based on encoded data pertaining to the recorded interaction.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising re-executing the application based on the recorded interaction between the test device operating system and the application sent to the server to simulate the user input.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein re-executing the application comprises creating a network connection from the test device to a server, retrieving the script from the server, and parsing the script into executable commands.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein recording the interaction comprises overriding a class interface method with a category interface method by wrappering over the class interface method.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising bytecode-injecting code to override a class loader and an instrumentation library post compile time by loading an instrumented class and instantiating an instrumented object.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating a troubleshooting log to facilitate a troubleshooting application.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising uploading the troubleshooting log to a help center for analysis.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the interaction between the test device operating system and the application includes one or more of a deterministic event and a non-deterministic event.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording is carried out through a testing library.

14. A method, comprising:

receiving, on a developer electronic device, data from a server, the data comprising human-readable action-description language from a script compiler of the server;

modifying the human-readable action-description language from the script compiler on the developer electronic device; and

returning the modified compiled script from the developer electronic device to the server;

wherein the data pertains to a test created by recording an interaction on a remotely-located testing electronic device.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising monitoring an interaction on the remotely-located testing electronic device prior to receiving the human-readable action-description language on the developer electronic device.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein modifying the human-readable action-description language comprises creating test data pertaining to a second test.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising transferring the modified compiled script from the server to the remotely-located testing electronic device.

18. A method, comprising:

receiving data pertaining to a recorded interaction between a test device operating system and an application on a test device, the recorded interaction being based on a user input;

compiling the data pertaining to the recorded interaction in a script compiler, the data comprising human-readable action-description language;

sending the compiled data comprising human-readable action-description language from the script compiler of the server to a developer device;

receiving modified data from the developer device; and

sending the modified data from the developer device to the test device.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising logging the recorded interaction in a recording log as line-by-line encoding of human-readable action-description language.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising compressing the data pertaining to the recorded interaction as a text-based standard that outlines captured events as objects.