Computer method and system for automatically creating tests for checking software
US7707553B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 8, 2005 |
| Grant date | Apr 27, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 24, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F8/315
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Computer system and method automatically generates a test source code for checking validity of an application written in an object oriented language. The application includes objects accessible through an interface implementing programming rules and object behavior rules. For each object, the invention extracts object methods and attributes of the object interface which are impacted by the object behavior rules and extracts the object identification. The invention fills the variable fields of a source code template with the extracted information. The template non variable source code is in conformance with the programming rules and implements a scenario for checking a set of object behavior rules; thus the filled template forms a generated test source code. For distributed applications, the specifications may be EJB or CORBA and the Test Generator uses templates for checking the life-cycle (creation, persistency, removal) of deployed objects.
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