Test engine

• US 8,065,661 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2006
• Issued: 11/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Viehmann, Robert, Sattler, Juergen, Gaffga, Joachim, Riemann, Steffen, Markert, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Das; Chameli
• Application Number:
  US11/512,441
• Publication Number:
  US 20080126448A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,911 Days
• Field of Search: 717/124, 717/126, 714/38
• US Class Current: 717/124
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites

Abstract

The present subject mater relates to testing software application configurations and, more particularly, to a test engine. The various embodiments described and illustrated herein provide systems, methods, and software that maintain a configuration database in a memory, wherein the configuration database includes a representation of configuration settings of an application. Some such embodiments may further store a test engine module in the memory, wherein the test engine module includes a set of test cases, which when processed, test functionality of the application, wherein a test case is selected for execution as a function of one or more application configuration setting representations from the configuration database.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a memory;

an application stored in the memory and executable within the system;

a configuration database stored in the memory, wherein the configuration database includes a representation of application configuration settings of the application as configured;

a test engine, wherein the test engine includes a set of test cases to test functionality of the configured application stored in the memory, wherein a test case is selected for execution as a function of at least one application configuration setting representation of the application as configured in the configuration database; and

an adaptation catalog including representations of application solution capabilities and identifying application configuration constraints, wherein an adaptation catalog entry is linked to a possible application configuration setting and a test case that tests the possible application configuration setting.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one test case includes a data generation script to generate data within the application upon which the at least one test case relies to test application functionality.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the output of a selected test case is the input for at least one test case that can be subsequently selected by the test engine for execution.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein a granularity of the test cases is equal to a granularity of possible application configuration settings.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the test engine selects a second test case for execution following execution of a first test case.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein after execution of the test engine is started, test engine execution is automatic.

7. A method comprising:

maintaining a configuration database in a memory, wherein the configuration database includes a representation of configuration settings of an application as deployed;

storing a test engine module in the memory, wherein the test engine module includes a set of test cases, which when processed, test functionality of the application as deployed, wherein a test case is selected for execution as a function of at least one application configuration setting representation from the configuration database; and

identifying application configuration constraints in an adaptation catalog, the adaptation catalog including representations of application solution capabilities, wherein an adaptation catalog entry is linked to a possible application configuration setting and a test case that tests the possible application configuration setting.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein at least one test case includes a data generation script, which when processed, generate data within the application upon which the at least one test case relies to test application functionality.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the output of a selected test case is the input for at least one test case that can be subsequently selected by the test engine for execution.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein a granularity of the test cases is equal to a granularity of possible application configuration settings.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the test engine module, when processing, selects a second test case for execution following execution of a first test case.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein after execution of the test engine module is started, test engine module execution is automatic.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, with encoded instructions stored thereon, which when executed, cause a machine to:

maintain a configuration database in a memory, wherein the configuration database includes a representation of configuration settings of an application as deployed;

store a test engine module in the memory, wherein the test engine module includes a set of test cases, which when processed, test functionality of the application as deployed, wherein a test case is selected for execution as a function of at least one application configuration setting representation from the configuration database; and

identify application configuration constraints in an adaptation catalog, the adaptation catalog including representations of application solution capabilities, wherein an adaptation catalog entry is linked to a possible application configuration setting and a test case that tests the possible application configuration setting.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein at least one test case includes a data generation script, which when processed, generate data within the application upon which the at least one test case relies to test application functionality.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the output of a selected test case is the input for at least one test case that can be subsequently selected by the test engine for execution.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein a granularity of the test cases is equal to a granularity of possible application configuration settings.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the test engine module, when processing, selects a second test case for execution following execution of a first test case.