Method and apparatus for model driven testing

• US 7,859,706 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2006
• Issued: 12/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Rachamim, David, Shaibe, Ben F. D., Borodin, Igor, Ganot, Elad, Heitner, Ami, Weiss, Penina
• Primary Examiner(s): EBRAHIMI DEHKORDY, SAEID
• Application Number:
  US11/526,939
• Publication Number:
  US 20080079961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,554 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.18, 358/1.13, 358/1.14, 358/1.16, 358/1.15, 716/1, 716/3, 716/18, 235/472.01, 235/462.45, 235/462.14, 706/11, 706/47, 706/50, 717/104, 717/110, 717/113, 717/126
• US Class Current: 358/1.18
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3684 for test design, e.g. generating new test cases

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing information about a model of a test for an application, using an application model, the method comprising the steps of: providing a pre configuration of the application or a part thereof; providing a transformation parameter; and providing an at least one post configuration of the at least one application or a part thereof. Once the pre-configuration, transformation parameter of post-configuration are provide, a test description is generated, which can then be compiled to suit and testing tool or environment.

Claims

1. A method for generating a model of a test, the model coupled to an at least one model of an at least one part of an at least one application, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving an at least one pre configuration attribute of the at least one part of the at least one application;

receiving an at least one transformation parameter, wherein the transformation parameter is associated with at least one of simulating a test scenario, supplying expected data by running a second application model, entering an expression or a condition, or entering a behavior model;

receiving an at least one post configuration attribute of the at least one part of the at least one application; and

generating a model of a test using at least one of the following;

the at least one pre configuration attribute;

the at least one transformation parameter;

the at least one post configuration attribute.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one application comprises an at least one actor, and wherein the at least one pre configuration attribute or the least one transformation parameter or the at least one post configuration attribute refer to the at least one actor.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising a step of compiling the at least one model of a test into an at least one testing product.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the at least one testing product is a test script.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the at least one testing product is designed to work with an at least one testing platform.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the at least one testing product is designed to work with an at least one runtime environment.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one expression or the at least one condition is a combination of one or more of the group consisting of:

a regular expression;

a loop;

a counter;

a while construct;

or an if-then construct.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one model of a test is represented as a tGraph file.

9. An apparatus for generating an at least one testing product for an at least one part of an at least one application modeled by an at least one application model, the application model comprising an at least one actor, the apparatus comprising:

an at least one logic component for associating the at least one actor with an at least one attribute related to a test, wherein the attribute is transformation parameter associated with at least one of simulating a test scenario, supplying expected data by running a second application model, entering an expression or a condition, or entering a behavior model;

an at least one test model generator for generating an at least one model of a test, the model of a test coupled with a model of the at least one part of the at least one application; and

an at least one user interface component.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising an at least one component for interfacing the apparatus to an at least one application development environment.

11. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising an at least one component for generating an at least one testing product from the at least one model of a test.

12. A non transitory computer readable storage medium containing a set of instructions for a general purpose computer, the set of instructions comprising:

receiving an at least one pre configuration attribute of an at least one part of an at least one application;

receiving an at least one transformation parameter, wherein the transformation parameter is associated with at least one of;

simulating a test scenario, supplying expected data by running a second application model, entering an expression or a condition, or entering a behavior model;

receiving an at least one post configuration attribute of the at least one part of the at least one application; and

generating a model of a test, the model of a test is coupled with a model of the at least one part of the at least one application, using at least one of the following;

the at least one pre configuration attribute;

the at least one transformation parameter;

the at least one post configuration attribute.