Method and apparatus for test program execution control, and a computer-readable recording medium with a program for making a computer execute the method recorded therein

• US 6,233,701 B1
• Filed: 09/25/1998
• Issued: 05/15/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Onoue, Kunihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoleil, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): BADERMAN, SCOTT T
• Application Number:
  US09/161,029
• Time in Patent Office: 963 Days
• Field of Search: 714/33, 714/738, 714/30, 714/31, 714/32, 714/37, 714/38, 714/41, 714/47, 714/703, 714/704, 714/741, 703/22, 716/4, 717/4
• US Class Current: 714/33
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/318307 computer-aided, e.g. automatic test program generator [ATPG], program translations, test program debugging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/263 Generation of test inputs, e.g. test vectors, patterns or sequences ; with adaptation of the tested hardware for testability with external testers

Abstract

A test program execution control apparatus, in which an operation of testing is started according to controls by a test program execution control section, a period of editing data for test results to a test editing section is specified by an editing period input section, the data for test results within the editing period is edited by a test result editing section, an order of execution of testing for test items to be executed as a test program and whether testing is executed or not are decided from the results of editing by a test item scheduling section, a test-item execution table is prepared depending on the order of execution of testing for the decided test items as well as on the condition as to whether testing thereto is executed or not, and the test program is discretely executed for each test item according to the contents of the test-item execution table.

Claims

1. A test program execution control apparatus for controlling execution of a test program for a specified information processing system comprising:

an accumulating unit for accumulating therein a result of testing for each test item for a test program executed for said specified information processing system along with a test schedule;

an operating condition determining unit for determining operating condition of said specified information processing system based on the result of testing during an arbitrary test period accumulated in said accumulating unit; and

a deciding unit for deciding an order of execution of testing for each test item for said test program based on the operating condition determined by said operating condition determining unit.

2. A test program execution control apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein testing for each of the test items is executed by a number of times corresponding to the frequency of occurrence of errors for that test item.

3. A test program execution control apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein said operating condition determining unit determines the conditions in which errors occur for each test item, and said deciding unit decides an order of execution in a descending order from a test item corresponding to the highest frequency of occurrence of errors based on the condition of occurrence of errors for each test item.

4. A test program execution control apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein said operating condition determining unit determines the conditions in which errors occur for each test item, and said deciding unit decides an order of execution of the test items in an ascending order from a test item corresponding to an error occurring at the shortest interval based on the condition of occurrence of errors for each test item.

5. A test program execution control apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein said operating condition determining unit determines the conditions in which errors occur for each test item, and said deciding unit decides an order of execution of the test item in an ascending order from a test item corresponding to the last error based on the condition of occurrence of errors for each test item.

6. A test program execution control apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein said operating condition determining unit determines the conditions in which errors occur for each test item, and said deciding unit excludes a test item having a lower value of error occurrence frequency than a preset value from the objects for testing based on the condition of occurrence of errors for each test item.

7. A test program execution control apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein said operating condition determining unit determines the conditions in which errors occur for each test item, and said deciding unit decides an order of execution of the test item in any one of a) descending order from any one test item of a test item corresponding to the highest error occurrence frequency, b) ascending order from a test item corresponding to an error occurring at the shortest interval and c) ascending order from a test item corresponding to the most recent error based on the condition of occurrence of errors for each test item.

8. A test program execution controlling method for controlling execution of a test program for a specified information processing system comprising:

a first step of accumulating a result of testing for each test item for a test program executed for said information processing system along with a test schedule in a memory;

a second step of specifying an arbitrary test period within the test schedule for which the test results have been accumulated in said memory in the first step;

a third step of determining the operating condition of said information processing system based on a test result during the arbitrary test period specified in the second step; and

a fourth step of deciding an order of execution of testing for each test item for said test program based on the operating condition determined in the third step.

9. A test program execution controlling method according to claim 8;

wherein the conditions in which errors occur for each test item are determined in the third step, and an order of execution of the test items is decided in the fourth step in any one of a) descending order from any one test item of a test item corresponding to the highest error occurrence frequency, b) ascending order from a test item corresponding to an error occurring at the shortest interval and c) ascending order from a test item corresponding to the most recent error based on the condition of occurrence of errors for each test item.

10. A test program execution controlling method according to claim 8;

wherein the conditions in which errors occur for each test item are determined in the third step, and a test item having a lower value of error occurrence frequency than a preset value is excluded in the fourth step from the objects for execution.

11. The test program execution controlling method according to claim 8;

wherein the condition in which errors occur for each test item is determined in the second step, and an order of execution is decided in the third step in any one of a) descending order from any one test item of a test item corresponding to the highest error occurrence frequency, b) ascending order from a test item corresponding to an error occurring at the shortest interval and c) ascending order from a test item corresponding to the most recent error based on the condition of occurrence of errors for each test item.

12. A test program execution controlling method according to claim 8;

wherein a number of times of testing for each test item is set based on an error occurrence frequency.

13. A computer-readable recording medium with a program for making a computer execute a test program execution controlling method applied to a test program execution control apparatus for controlling execution of a test program for a information processing system recorded therein,

said method comprising:

a first step of accumulating a test result for each test item for a test program executed to said specified information processing system along with a test schedule in a memory;

a second step of specifying an arbitrary test period within the test schedule for which the test results have been accumulated in said memory in the first step;

a third step of determining the operating condition of said information processing system based on the test result during the arbitrary test period specified in the second step; and

a fourth step of deciding an order of execution of testing for test items for the test program based on the operating condition determined in the third step.

14. A computer-readable recording medium according to claim 13;

wherein the condition in which errors occur for each test item is determined in the third step as, and an order of execution of the test item is decided in the fourth step in any one of a) descending order from any one test item of a test item corresponding to the highest error occurrence frequency, b) ascending order from a test item corresponding to an error occurring at the shortest interval and c) ascending order from a test item corresponding to the most recent error based on the condition of occurrence of errors for each test item.

15. A computer-readable recording medium according to claim 13;

wherein the conditions in which errors for each test item are determined in the third step, and a test item having a lower value of error occurrence frequency than a preset value is excluded in the fourth step from the objects for execution based on the condition of occurrence of errors for each test item.