Method, system and computer storage medium for test tool development

• US 7,996,815 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2006
• Issued: 08/09/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Nomani, Aslam F., Godwin, David R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kang; Insun
• Application Number:
  US11/531,286
• Publication Number:
  US 20080127033A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,791 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/124
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design

Abstract

A test tool infrastructure comprising: a test tool interface for generating a test tool module, the test tool interface including: a variable declaration input to create a variable declaration block of the test tool module, the variable declaration block user can declare fixed string variables, random integer variables and random string variables; a preparation input to create a preparation block of the test tool module, the preparation block including processes executed once for the entire program; an initial input to create an initial block of the test tool module, the initial block including processes executed once for each client specified in the initial block; a loop input to create loop block of the test tool module, the loop block including processes executed a number of times specified in an iteration command; a cleanup input to create a cleanup block of the test tool module, the cleanup block including clean-up processes executed once for each client; and a terminate input to create a terminate preparation block of the test tool module, the terminate preparation block including clean-up processes executed once for the entire program.

Claims

1. A test tool infrastructure embodied on a storage device for providing a platform impendent test tool development environment comprising:

a test tool interface for generating a platform independent test tool module that requires no compilation, the test tool interface including;

a variable declaration input to create a variable declaration block of the test tool module, the variable declaration block user can declare fixed string variables, random integer variables and random string variables;

a preparation input to create a preparation block of the test tool module, the preparation block including processes executed once for the entire program;

an initial input to create an initial block of the test tool module, the initial block including processes executed once for each client specified in the initial block;

a loop input to create loop block of the test tool module, the loop block including processes executed a number of times specified in an iteration command;

a cleanup input to create a cleanup block of the test tool module, the cleanup block including clean-up processes executed once for each client; and

a terminate input to create a terminate preparation block of the test tool module, the terminate preparation block including clean-up processes executed once for the entire program.

2. The test tool infrastructure of claim 1 further comprising:

a plurality of test tool modules.

3. The test tool infrastructure of claim 1 wherein:

the test tool interface receives an input command designating a module, clients to be tested by the module and iterations of test.

4. The test tool infrastructure of claim 3 further comprising:

log files for storing test results from the clients.

5. The test tool infrastructure of claim 1 wherein:

the variable declaration input, the preparation input, the initial input, the loop input, the cleanup input and the terminate input are textual inputs.