ONLINE APPLICATION TESTING ACROSS BROWSER ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20150089299A1
• Filed: 09/25/2013
• Published: 03/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Gittelman, Arye, Nation, Zachary A., Silverstein, Michael B., Mandal, Aditi, Strick, John W., Shah, Ajey P., Jia, Yubo, Spitsyn, Alexander S., Bogazliyanlioglu, Emre
• Granted Patent: US 9,223,684 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/38.14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/368 for test version control, e.g. updating test cases to a new software version
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites

Abstract

A stub can be loaded into a first browser environment of a browser application on a client machine, with the stub being loaded from a domain. The stub can execute to load an online application test into the first browser environment. Additionally, the test can execute in the first browser environment to conduct the test on an online application. For example, the test may be conducted from a second browser environment of the browser on the client machine. Performing the test can include loading one or more digital pages from the application into the second browser environment.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

loading a stub into a first browser environment of a browser application on a client machine, the stub being loaded from a domain that is remote from the client machine;

executing the stub in the first browser environment to load an online application test into the first browser environment; and

conducting the test on an online application from the domain by executing the test in the first browser environment.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the executing of the test in the first browser environment produces one or more actions in a second browser environment of the browser on the client machine, the one or more actions comprising loading one or more digital pages from the application from the domain and into the second browser environment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second browser environment is in a different browser window from the first browser environment.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the second browser environment is in an inline frame in the first browser environment.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising loading a harness into the browser, wherein the harness hosts the stub in an inline frame in the harness, wherein the inline frame is the first browser environment.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the domain is a first domain and wherein loading the harness comprises loading the harness from a second domain that is different from the first domain.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain is a first domain and wherein the loading of the test into the first browser environment comprises loading the test from a second domain that is different from the first domain.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the stub collecting results from the test and returning the results from the test, wherein the method further comprises performing one or more computations on the results from the test and returning results from the one or more computations.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the stub and the test are each defined at least in part by JavaScript.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising maintaining a stack of multiple task queues, wherein each of the task queues includes at least one task specified in the test, and wherein at least one of the task queues includes multiple tasks specified in the test.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the task queues in the stack are performed in a last-in-first-out order.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein maintaining the stack comprises adding an additional queue to the stack in response to a running task in an existing task in an existing queue the stack calling for the addition of the additional queue, and running the additional queue before continuing with running the existing queue.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more tasks within at least one of the task queues is performed in an order specified in the test.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more tasks within at least one of the task queues is performed in an order specified in a general task library.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the test specifies one or more tasks comprising at least one task that includes an action and a waiter, the waiter waiting for occurrence of a specified event that is different from the action.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising responding to a single user input action by automatically instructing multiple different computing machines running different types of browsers to each perform the method of claim 1 and to return results from the test.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising running a client service on the client machine and outside the browser, the client service interacting with the stub to perform one or more actions indicated in the test.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the method is performed at least in part by hardware logic.

19. A computer system comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory comprising instructions stored thereon that when executed by at least one processor cause at least one processor to perform acts comprising;

loading a stub into a first browser environment of a browser application on a client machine, the stub being loaded from a domain;

executing the stub in the first browser environment to load an online application test into the first browser environment;

launching a second browser environment, the second browser environment being a browser environment selected from a group consisting of a different browser window from the first browser environment and an inline frame in the first browser environment; and

conducting the test on an online application from the domain using the second browser environment of the browser on the client machine, conducting the test comprising;

loading one or more digital pages from the application from the domain and into the second browser environment; and

an abstraction layer, which is between the test and the second browser environment, relaying information between the test and the second browser environment, the abstraction layer being configured to interact with the test in the same manner whether the second browser environment is a browser window that is different from a browser window that hosts the first browser environment or whether the second browser environment is an inline frame in the first browser environment.

20. One or more computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause at least one processor to perform acts comprising:

loading a harness in a first browser environment of a browser application on a client machine, the harness presenting a user interface for receiving user input that governs performance of a test, and the harness being defined, at least in part, in a scripting language;

loading a stub into an inline frame in the harness, the stub being loaded from a first domain, and the stub being configured to interact with the harness, and the stub being defined, at least in part, in the scripting language;

in response to user input instructions provided to the harness, executing the stub in the first browser environment to load the test into the inline frame from a second domain, the test being identified to the stub by the harness, and the test being defined, at least in part, in the scripting language;

launching a second browser environment, the second browser environment being a browser environment selected from a group consisting of a different browser window from the first browser environment and an inline frame in the first browser environment; and

conducting the test on an online application from the domain using the second browser environment of the browser on the client machine, conducting the test comprising loading one or more digital pages from the application from the domain and into the second browser environment, conducting the test comprising an abstraction layer relaying information between the test and the second browser environment, the abstraction layer being configured to interact with the test in the same manner whether the second browser environment is a browser window that is different from a browser window that hosts the first browser environment or whether the second browser environment is an inline frame in the first browser environment.