METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A TEST ARTIFACT

• US 20160148130A1
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Published: 05/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wipro Limited
• Original Assignee: Wipro Limited
• Inventors: Krishnan, Krishnaraj Padur, Choudam, Hemantha Kumar
• Granted Patent: US 9,977,821 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0633 Workflow analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method of automatically generating a test artifact is disclosed. The method involves executing a business process comprising one or more web services; monitoring the business process to identify process modules of the business process invoking the at least one web service, wherein the one or more process modules invoking the at least one web service corresponds to one or more integration points; mapping the one or more integration points to one or more corresponding nodes of a business process model associated with the business process; mapping data parameters associated with each node upstream of the one or more mapped nodes of the business process model to one or more request data fields of a test script; and generating, by the hardware processor, the test artifact by automatically populating the request data fields with test data corresponding to the data parameters associated with the one or more request data fields.

Claims

1. A method of automatically generating a test artifact, the method comprising:

executing, by an artifact generating computing device, a business process comprising at least one web service;

monitoring, by the artifact generating computing device, the business process to identify one or more process modules of the business process invoking the at least one web service, wherein the one or more process modules invoking the at least one web service correspond to one or more integration points;

mapping, by the artifact generating computing device, the one or more integration points to one or more corresponding nodes of a business process model associated with the business process;

mapping, by the artifact generating computing device, data parameters associated with each node upstream of the one or more mapped nodes of the business process model to one or more request data fields of a test script; and

generating, by the artifact generating computing device, the test artifact by automatically populating the request data fields with test data corresponding to the data parameters associated with the one or more request data fields.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

parsing, by the artifact generating computing device, the business process model to identify one or more business process paths; and

determining, by the artifact generating computing device, a criticality of the one or more business process paths based on a criticality of one or more nodes of the one or more business process paths.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more request data fields are identified based on a specification of the web service associated with the each of the one or more integration points.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the test script comprises one or more response data fields identified based on a specification of the web service associated with the each of the one or more integration points.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

mapping, by the artifact generating computing device, the one or more response data fields to data parameters associated with each node upstream and downstream of the one or more mapped nodes of the business process model; and

retrieving, by the artifact generating computing device, an expected output associated with the one or more response data fields from one or more databases.

6. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

generating, by the artifact generating computing device, at least one virtual service based on the one or more request data fields and the one or more response data fields.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

automatically retrieving, by the artifact generating computing device, test data corresponding to the data parameters associated with the one or more request data fields from one or more databases.

8. An artifact generating computing device, a processor and a memory coupled to the processor which is configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to:

execute a business process comprising at least one web service;

monitor the business process to identify one or more process modules of the business process invoking the at least one web service, wherein the one or more process modules invoking the at least one web service corresponds to one or more integration points;

map the one or more integration points to one or more corresponding nodes of a business process model associated with the business process;

map data parameters associated with each node upstream of the one or more mapped nodes of the business process model to one or more request data fields of a test script; and

generate the test artifact by automatically populating the request data fields with test data corresponding to the data parameters associated with the one or more request data fields.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the processor coupled to the memory is further configured to be capable of executing at least one additional programmed instruction comprising and stored in the memory to:

parse the business process model to identify one or more business process paths; and

determine a criticality of the one or more business process paths based on a criticality of one or more nodes of the one or more business process paths.

10. The device of claim 8, wherein the one or more request data fields are identified based on a specification of the web service associated with the each of the one or more integration points.

11. The device of claim 8, wherein the test script comprises one or more response data fields identified based on a specification of the web service associated with the each of the one or more integration points.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the processor coupled to the memory is further configured to be capable of executing at least one additional programmed instruction comprising and stored in the memory to:

map the one or more response data fields to data parameters associated with each node upstream and downstream of the one or more mapped nodes of the business process model; and

retrieve an expected output associated with the one or more response data fields from one or more databases.

13. The device of claim 11, wherein the processor coupled to the memory is further configured to be capable of executing at least one additional programmed instruction comprising and stored in the memory to generate at least one virtual service based on the one or more request data fields and the one or more response data fields.

14. The device of claim 8, wherein the processor coupled to the memory is further configured to be capable of executing at least one additional programmed instruction comprising and stored in the memory to automatically retrieve test data corresponding to the data parameters associated with the one or more request data fields from one or more databases.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for automatically generating a test artifact comprising executable code which when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform steps comprising:

executing a business process comprising at least one web service;

monitoring the business process to identify one or more process modules of the business process invoking the at least one web service, wherein the one or more process modules invoking the at least one web service correspond to one or more integration points;

mapping the one or more integration points to one or more corresponding nodes of a business process model associated with the business process;

mapping data parameters associated with each node upstream of the one or more mapped nodes of the business process model to one or more request data fields of a test script; and

generating the test artifact by automatically populating the request data fields with test data corresponding to the data parameters associated with the one or more request data fields.

16. The medium of claim 15 further having stored thereon at least one additional instruction that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform at least one additional step comprising:

parsing the business process model to identify one or more business process paths; and

determining a criticality of the one or more business process paths based on a criticality of one or more nodes of the one or more business process paths.

17. The medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more request data fields are identified based on a specification of the web service associated with the each of the one or more integration points.

18. The medium of claim 15, wherein the test script comprises one or more response data fields identified based on a specification of the web service associated with the each of the one or more integration points.

19. The medium of claim 18 further having stored thereon at least one additional instruction that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform at least one additional step comprising:

mapping the one or more response data fields to data parameters associated with each node upstream and downstream of the one or more mapped nodes of the business process model; and

retrieving an expected output associated with the one or more response data fields from one or more databases.

20. The medium of claim 18 further having stored thereon at least one additional instruction that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform at least one additional step comprising:

generating at least one virtual service based on the one or more request data fields and the one or more response data fields.

21. The medium of claim 15 further having stored thereon at least one additional instruction that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform at least one additional step comprising:

automatically retrieving test data corresponding to the data parameters associated with the one or more request data fields from one or more databases.