JPH01261738A - Test module for interactive system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To completely inspect almost infinite combinations by sequentially generating inspection procedure. CONSTITUTION:An inspection procedure generating part 2 generates the combinations of modules to be inspected sequentially or at random and removes the combinations of unexecutable modules in accordance with an illegal procedure data part 3 to find out the combinations of executable modules. A control part 1 reads out the information of input data required for the detected modules from an interface data part 4 and generates necessary input data at random respectively from an integer data generating part 5, a real number data generating part 6 and a character string data generating part 7. Thus, the control part 1 executes the inspection of a module called from a module calling part 8 on the basis of the found data. A series of these procedure is repeatedly executed by the control part 1 up to the end of all the combinations. Consequently, all the combinations can be almost completely inspected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a test module for an interactive system that tests each module of the interactive system.

[Conventional technology]

An interactive system generally has a configuration shown in FIG. Conventionally, inspection of such an interactive system involves selecting commands and inputting data from the terminal 11, and then controlling the integrated control unit 141, screen control unit 15, and workplace control unit 15 through the interaction control unit 12 and command processing unit 13. Each module, including the section 16 and the common control section 17, was inspected.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Inspection of the conventional interactive system described above is performed via the interaction control section and command processing section, which are upper modules of each module to be inspected, so that some combinations are not inspected. Therefore, since the module is not completely inspected, a problem may occur when a combination that has not been used before is used due to modification of another module.

In addition, since data input during inspection is done manually because it is done through the dialog control unit, it takes a lot of time to perform an inspection that satisfies the number of inspection items. There is.

[Means to solve the problem]

The test module for an interactive system of the present invention sequentially generates an incorrect procedure data section storing combinations of unexecutable modules and all combinations of modules to be tested. a combination test procedure generation unit that excludes those that match the above; an interface data unit that stores interface data of the module to be tested; a data generation unit that randomly generates input data necessary for testing based on the interface data; The present invention is characterized by comprising a module calling unit that calls and executes the module to be inspected based on the input data.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, a control unit 1 controls the entire automatic test module for an interactive system, and a fraudulent procedure data unit 3
Combinations of modules that cannot be executed by the system are stored in advance.

The inspection procedure generating section 2 sequentially or randomly generates combinations of modules to be inspected, eliminates infeasible module combinations according to the contents of the incorrect procedure data section 3, and finds executable combinations.

The control unit 1 reads information on input data required by the obtained module (number of input data, type of input data, range of data values, etc.) from the interface data unit 4, and reads necessary information from the information on the input data. The integer data generator 5. inputs input data according to whether it is an integer, real number data, or character string data. The real number data generator 6 and the character string data generator 7 randomly generate the data.

Based on the data obtained from these, the module calling section 8 executes the module to be inspected.

The input data and execution results are sent from the journal section 8 to execute the module to be inspected.

Input data and execution results are output by the journal output unit 9. The control unit 1 repeatedly executes these series of procedures a specified number of times or until all combinations are completed.

FIG. 2 shows the calling state of each module when the interactive system testing module of this embodiment is incorporated into the interactive system of FIG.

Note that random testing can be performed by the testing procedure generating section 2 randomly generating testing procedures. By combining this with a function that randomly generates data, module inspection can be performed almost perfectly.

Further, since the above-described inspection can be automatically executed, the time can be significantly reduced compared to the case where the inspection is performed interactively.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention can test nearly infinite combinations without omission by sequentially generating test procedures.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing a test module of the present invention incorporated into an interactive system, and Fig. 3 is a block diagram of a general interactive system. . DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Control part, 2... Inspection procedure generation part, 3... Unauthorized procedure data part, 4... Interface data part, 5
...Integer data generation section, 6...Real number data generation section,
7... Character string data generation unit, 8... Module calling unit, 9... Digital output unit, 11... Terminal device, 12... Dialogue control unit, 13... Command processing Department.

Claims (1)

[Claims] An incorrect procedure data section storing combinations of modules that cannot be executed and all combinations of modules to be inspected are sequentially generated, and among these, only those that match the contents of the incorrect procedure data section are generated. a combination test procedure generating section to be excluded; an interface data section storing interface data of the module to be tested; a data generating section randomly generating input data necessary for testing based on the interface data; A test module for an interactive system, comprising a module calling unit that calls and executes a module to be tested.