APPLICATION USER INTERFACE TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20200012587A1
• Filed: 07/06/2018
• Published: 01/09/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Girata, JR., John, Florkiewicz, Bryan R., Presler-Marshall, Martin
• Granted Patent: US 10,642,717 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3676 for coverage analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3684 for test design, e.g. generating new test cases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

A method, computer program product, and computing system device for monitoring a plurality of individual actions executed on at least a portion of a software application. It may be determined whether the plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application complete at least one test case of a plurality of test cases. The at least one test case may be marked as completed based upon, at least in part, determining that the plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application complete the at least one test case of the plurality of test cases.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

monitoring, at a computing device, a plurality of individual actions executed by a user on at least a portion of a software application;

determining whether the plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application complete at least one test case of a plurality of test cases; and

marking the at least one test case as completed based upon, at least in part, determining that the plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application complete the at least one test case of the plurality of test cases at least a predefined number of times.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

defining a test case of the plurality of test cases as a plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein defining the test case includes defining the test case as a predefined sequence of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein defining the test case includes inserting a plurality of code hooks into code associated with the at least a portion of the software application.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein monitoring the plurality of individual actions includes associating one or more individual actions of the plurality of individual actions with a specific user from a plurality of users.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application complete at least one test case of a plurality of test cases includes recording each completion of the at least one test case of the plurality of test cases.

7. (canceled)

8. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

monitoring a plurality of individual actions executed by a user on at least a portion of a software application;

determining whether the plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application complete at least one test case of a plurality of test cases; and

marking the at least one test case as completed based upon, at least in part, determining that the plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application complete the at least one test case of the plurality of test cases at least a predefined number of times.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising instructions for:

defining a test case of the plurality of test cases as a plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein defining the test case includes defining the test case as a predefined sequence of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application.

11. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein defining the test case includes inserting a plurality of code hooks into code associated with the at least a portion of the software application.

12. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein monitoring the plurality of individual actions includes associating one or more individual actions of the plurality of individual actions with a specific user from a plurality of users.

13. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein determining whether the plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application complete at least one test case of a plurality of test cases includes recording each completion of the at least one test case of the plurality of test cases.

14. (canceled)

15. A computing system including one or more processors and one or more memories configured to perform operations comprising:

monitoring a plurality of individual actions executed by a user on at least a portion of a software application;

determining whether the plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application complete at least one test case of a plurality of test cases; and

marking the at least one test case as completed based upon, at least in part, determining that the plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application complete the at least one test case of the plurality of test cases at least a predefined number of times.

16. The computing system of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

defining a test case of the plurality of test cases as a plurality of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application.

17. The computing system of claim 16, wherein defining the test case includes defining the test case as a predefined sequence of individual actions executed on the at least a portion of the software application.

18. The computing system of claim 16, wherein defining the test case includes inserting a plurality of code hooks into code associated with the at least a portion of the software application.

19. The computing system of claim 15, wherein monitoring the plurality of individual actions includes associating one or more individual actions of the plurality of individual actions with a specific user from a plurality of users.

20. (canceled)