Method and device for automatic computer testing on a plurality of computers through a local area network

• US 6,581,169 B1
• Filed: 12/08/1999
• Issued: 06/17/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Liou, Xiao Gang, Chen, Tong S, Lin, Kuang Shin, Hou, Zhen Yu
• Primary Examiner(s): Iqbal, Nadeem
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bonura, Timothy M.
• Application Number:
  US09/456,329
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• Field of Search: 714/25-38, 714/47, 714/48
• US Class Current: 714/47.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/22 Detection or location of defective computer hardware by testing during standby operation or during idle time, e.g. start-up testing

Abstract

This specification discloses a method and device for computer testing, which method can perform automatic testing for a plurality of computer on the product line. By describing, recording, and summarizing contents and results of each test item using a script, the defects such as lower efficiency, more errors and longer testing time occurred in human operations can be conquered. The method comprises the steps of: building a structured query language (SQL) server; forming electrical communication between the SQL server and a plurality of computers to be tested; retrieving a command macro from the SQL server according to the-command request sent out from the computer to be tested; controlling the computer to be tested to execute corresponding test commands according to the content of the command macro; receiving and analyzing the execution result of the test command; and displaying the testing result.

Claims

1. A method for computer testing for simultaneously performing tests on a plurality of computers on the product line, which method comprises the steps of:

providing an SQL server with command macros;

obtaining a communication signal from the plurality of computers to be tested;

when the communication signal is a command request, determining whether a command macro corresponding to the command request has been loaded;

when the command macro has been loaded, transmitting a test command pointed by a control pointer to the computer to be tested;

obtaining a string representing the execution result of the command macro;

releasing the command macro when the string is an ending sign; and

finishing the method,

further comprising the steps of;

determining whether the communication signal is an execution signal when it is not a command request;

displaying the test status when the communication signal is the execution signal; and

finishing the method.

2. The method for computer testing of claim 1, which further comprises the steps of:

obtaining the next test command when the string is not an ending sign;

making the control pointer point to the next test command; and

finishing the method.

3. The method for computer testing of claim 1, which further comprises the steps of:

treating the string as an ending sign when there is no further test command in the command macro; and

finishing the method.

4. The method for computer testing of claim 1, which further comprises the steps of:

loading the command macro from a structured query language (SQL) server when the command macro has not yet loaded;

making the control pointer point to the first test command in the command macro; and

transmitting the test command pointed by the control pointer to the computer to be tested.

5. The method for computer testing of claim 1, which further comprises the steps of:

determining whether the communication signal is an ending signal when it is not an execution signal;

displaying the test status when the communication signal is the ending signal; and

finishing the method.

6. The method for computer testing of claim 1, which further comprises the steps of:

determining whether the communication is an error signal when it is not an ending signal;

displaying the test status when the communication signal is the error signal; and

finishing the method.

7. The method for computer testing of claim 1, which further comprises the steps of;

invalidating the communication signal when it is not the error signal; and

finishing the method.

8. The method for computer testing of claim 1, which further comprises the steps of:

building a command database; and

storing the command macro into the command database.

9. The method for computer testing of claim 1, wherein the SQL server and the plurality of computers to be tested are connected through the LAN.

10. The method for computer testing of claim 1, wherein the command macro is a script.

11. The method for computer testing of claim 1, wherein the command macro comprises a tool name and a tool parameter.