Software test management program software test management apparatus and software test management method

• US 7,882,493 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2006
• Issued: 02/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Rieko, Uehara, Tadahiro, Kodaka, Toshihiro, Katayama, Asako, Ohashi, Kyoko
• Primary Examiner(s): DENG, ANNA CHEN
• Application Number:
  US11/353,026
• Publication Number:
  US 20070174711A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,813 Days
• Field of Search: 717124-135, 714/38
• US Class Current: 717/124
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3672 Test management

Abstract

A software test management program, a software test management apparatus and a software test management method can integrally manage test-related information that are to be effectively exploited among test support functions. The software test management apparatus includes a design model registration section 31 that registers a design model, a source code registration section 34 that registers a source code, a test model registration section 32 that registers the test model prepared to correspond to the design model and also the corresponding relationship between the design model and the test model, an execution trace registration section 33 that registers the execution trace of each test case obtained by executing the source code according to the test cases in the test model, the corresponding relationship between the test model and the execution trace and also the corresponding relationship between the execution trace and the source code and a model relations management interface 12 that traces all the corresponding relationships.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium having recorded thereon a software test management program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute a process comprising:

registering a design model including use cases;

registering a source code prepared on a basis of the design model;

registering test cases prepared to correspond to the use cases in the design model and test data as test model and a corresponding relationship between the design model and the test model;

registering an execution trace of each test case obtained by executing the source code according to the test cases in the test model, a corresponding relationship between the test model and the execution trace and a corresponding relationship between the execution trace and the source code;

tracing a corresponding relationship among the design model, the test model, the execution trace and the source code on a basis of the corresponding relationship between the design model and the test model, the corresponding relationship between the test model and the execution trace and the corresponding relationship between the execution trace and the source code; and

detecting a specified execution trace in which a specified element in the source code is executed, a specified test case corresponding to the specified execution trace and a specified element of the design model corresponding to the specified test case on a basis of the tracing and outputting the specified element of the design model after the tracing.

2. The computer-readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the process further comprises:

identifying an altered part of altered source code, detecting an execution trace including the altered part, the test case corresponding to the execution trace and the element of the design model corresponding to the test case on the basis of the trace in the tracing and, if the element of the design model includes an alteration, outputting the test case as an amendment-requiring test case after the tracing.

3. The computer-readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the process further comprises:

detecting an unexecuted part of the source code as an unexecuted block by comparing corresponding positions of all the execution trace and the source code on the basis of the trace in the tracing, detecting a conditional sentence that determines not to execute the unexecuted block of the source code, detecting the execution trace that the conditional sentence is executed and the test case corresponding the execution trace on the basis of the trace in the tracing, determining a condition for the unexecuted block to be executed by analyzing the conditional sentence and outputting the test case and the condition as reference information for a test case to be newly prepared after the tracing.

4. The computer-readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the process further comprises:

detecting the test case corresponding to the element of the design model, the execution trace corresponding to the test case and the source code corresponding to the execution trace on the basis of the trace in the tracing and outputting the source code after the tracing.

5. The computer-readable medium according to claim 3, wherein

detecting the unexecuted part further outputs the element of the design model corresponding to the test case as information for preparing a new test case.

6. A software test management apparatus comprising:

a memory;

a design model registration section that registers a design model including use cases in the memory;

a source code registration section that registers a source code prepared on a basis of the design model in the memory;

a test model registration section that registers, in the memory, test cases prepared to correspond to the use cases in the design model and test data as test model and a corresponding relationship between the design model and the test model;

an execution trace registration section that registers, in the memory, an execution trace of each test case obtained by executing the source code according to the test cases in the test model, a corresponding relationship between the test model and the execution trace and a corresponding relationship between the execution trace and the source code;

a model relations management section that traces a corresponding relationship among the design model, the test model, the execution trace and the source code on a basis of the corresponding relationship between the design model and the test model, the corresponding relationship between the test model and the execution trace and the corresponding relationship between the execution trace and the source code; and

a corresponding design model identifying section that detects a specified execution trace in which a specified element in the source code is executed, a specified test case corresponding to the specified execution trace and a specified element of the design model corresponding to the specified test case on a basis of the tracing by the model relations management section and outputs the specified element of the design model.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

an influential test case identifying section that identifies an altered part of altered source code, detects an execution trace including the altered part, the test case corresponding to the execution trace and the element of the design model corresponding to the test case on the basis of the tracing by the model relations management section and, if the element of the design model includes an alteration, outputs the test case as an amendment-requiring test case.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

an unextracted test case generation section that detects an unexecuted part of the source code as an unexecuted block by comparing corresponding positions of all the execution trace and the source code on the basis of the tracing by the model relations management section, detects a conditional sentence that determines not to execute the unexecuted block of the source code, detects the execution trace that the conditional sentence is executed and the test case corresponding the execution trace on the basis of the tracing by the model relations management section, determines a condition for the unexecuted block to be executed by analyzing the conditional sentence and outputs the test case and the condition as reference information for a test case to be newly prepared.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a corresponding source code identifying section that detects the test case corresponding to the element of the design model, the execution trace corresponding to the test case and the source code corresponding to the execution trace on the basis of the tracing by the model relations management section and outputs the source code.

10. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the unextracted test case generation section further outputs the element of the design model corresponding to the test case as information for generating a new test case.

11. A software test management method executed by a software test management apparatus, the method comprising:

registering a design model including use cases in a memory;

registering a source code prepared on a basis of the design model in the memory;

registering, in the memory, test cases prepared to correspond to the use cases in the design model and test data as test model and a corresponding relationship between the design model and the test model;

registering, in the memory, an execution trace of each test case obtained by executing the source code according to the test cases in the test model, a corresponding relationship between the test model and the execution trace and a corresponding relationship between the execution trace and the source code;

tracing a corresponding relationship among the design model, the test model, the execution trace and the source code on a basis of the corresponding relationship between the design model and the test model, the corresponding relationship between the test model and the execution trace and the corresponding relationship between the execution trace and the source code; and

detecting a specified execution trace in which a specified element in the source code is executed, a specified test case corresponding to the specified execution trace and a specified element of the design model corresponding to the specified test case on a basis of the tracing and outputting the specified element of the design model after the tracing.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

identifying an altered part of altered source code, detecting an execution trace including the altered part, the test case corresponding to the execution trace and the element of the design model corresponding to the test case on the basis of the trace in the tracing and, if the element of the design model includes an alteration, outputting the test case as an amendment-requiring test case after the tracing.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

detecting an unexecuted part of the source code as an unexecuted block by comparing corresponding positions of all the execution trace and the source code on the basis of the trace in the tracing, detecting a conditional sentence that determines not to execute the unexecuted block of the source code, detecting the execution trace that the conditional sentence is executed and the test case corresponding the execution trace on the basis of the trace in the tracing, determining a condition for the unexecuted block to be executed by analyzing the conditional sentence and outputting the test case and the condition as reference information for a test case to be newly prepared after the tracing.

14. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

detecting the test case corresponding to the element of the design model, the execution trace corresponding to the test case and the source code corresponding to the execution trace on the basis of the trace in the tracing and outputting the source code after the tracing.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein

the detecting the unexecuted part further outputs the element of the design model corresponding to the test case as information for generating a new test case.