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Apparatus and method for scan-based testing in an object-oriented programming environment

  • US 5,606,661 A
  • Filed: 06/07/1995
  • Issued: 02/25/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of testing individual objects in an object-oriented programming environment, comprising the steps, performed by a data processing system, of:

  • establishing a container object that will be updated to contain a pointer to each newly instantiated object;

    establishing a function for the TopObject class that places in the container object a pointer to each newly created object when each new object is created;

    creating a new object that belongs to the TopObject class, thereby causing the function to add a pointer in the container object for the new object, wherein the new object contains a respective testing function; and

    performing a global testing function that will traverse the object pointers in the container object and will invoke the respective testing function within each object pointed to, in accordance with the object pointers in the container object.

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