Mobile interaction with software test cases

• US 8,538,414 B1
• Filed: 07/17/2007
• Issued: 09/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Khuong, Daniel, Beans, Erik, Ou, Rong
• Primary Examiner(s): Magloire, Vladimir
• Application Number:
  US11/779,031
• Time in Patent Office: 2,254 Days
• Field of Search: 455/423, 455/67.11, 455/418, 455/419, 455/420
• US Class Current: 455/423
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

A method of managing a software test case includes receiving a message about a test case from a test case management system, associating the message with a mobile device, and translating the message and transmitting the translated message to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method of remotely managing a software test case using a mobile device, comprising:

receiving, at a test case administrator system, a request from a mobile device for a report on a test case performed by a test case management system;

checking credentials of the mobile device to determine that the mobile device is authorized to access the report on the test case;

identifying a device type for the mobile device;

based on the identified device type, determining a format according to which the report on the test case is to be arranged such that the report on the test case is displayable on the mobile device;

converting the report on the test case in accordance with the format to obtain a converted report on the test case;

transmitting the converted report on the test case from the test case administrator system to the mobile device;

receiving, from the mobile device after the test case has been performed, a command to start a subsequent test case; and

issuing an instruction to the test case management system to start the subsequent test case in response to the command.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is received through an application programming interface (API).

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating the request with the mobile device by applying a user associated with the test case in the test case management system to a database that correlates users to mobile device identifiers.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the request comprises a Short Message Service (SMS) text message, and wherein converting the report on the test case comprises converting the report on the test case into an SMS format, and wherein transmitting the converted report on the test case comprises transmitting the converted report on the test case as an SMS text message.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein converting the report on the test case comprises converting the report on the test case into an e-mail format, and wherein transmitting the converted report on the test case comprises transmitting the converted report on the test case as an e-mail message containing a hyperlink associated with the test case.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising receiving from the mobile device a request from the hyperlink and transmitting mobile web-based data in response.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the web-based data comprises data in a format selected from the group consisting of WML, xHTML, iMode, and XML.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein checking the credentials of the mobile device comprises verifying that an SMS address of the mobile device is authorized to access the report on the test case.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating code for execution on the mobile device displaying graphical status indicators associated with the converted report on the test case for indicating a status of the test case.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting to the mobile device, with the converted report, data for generating a user-selectable control that, when selected by the user, causes the mobile device to generate the command to start the subsequent test case.

10. A computer-implemented system, comprising:

a first interface at a test case administrator system configured to receive testing information from one or more test case managers, wherein the received testing information includes results of one or more test cases performed by the one or more test case managers;

a message converter that converts the received testing information into converted testing information structured according to one or more mobile messaging formats that are supported by one or more types of mobile devices; and

a second interface configured to transmit the converted testing information from the test case administrator system to the one or more types of mobile devices,

wherein the second interface is configured to receive control information from the one or more types of mobile devices, the control information being used to control the one or more test case managers to affect performance of the one or more test cases,

wherein the message converter converts the received control information into converted control information structured according to one or more control formats that are supported by the one or more test case managers.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising a user database that correlates test case user identifiers with mobile device identifiers.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the first interface comprises a first application programming interface (API).

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the first interface comprises a plug-in module for the first application programming interface.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the second interface comprises a second application programming interface (API).

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the second interface comprises an application programming interface (API).

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the second interface comprises a text messaging module.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the second interface comprises an e-mail module.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the message converter is further adapted to convert queries from the one or more types of mobile devices to commands for the one or more test case managers.

19. A computer-implemented system, comprising:

a first interface configured to receive testing information from a test case manager, wherein the received testing information includes results of one or more test cases performed by the test case manager;

a first module associated with the test case manager to generate translated testing information from the testing information, the translated testing information being in a format supported by a mobile device to which the translated testing information is to be transmitted;

a second interface configured to transmit the translated testing information to the mobile device and to receive control information from the mobile device; and

a second module associated with the mobile device to generate translated control information from the control information, the translated control information being in a format supported by the test case manager and being used to control the test case manager to affect performance of the one or more test cases.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the control information received from the mobile device comprises a command to restart a particular one of the test cases in response to an exception indicator included in the testing information that is associated with the particular one of the test cases.