JPH03182941A - Program test system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically judge the right or wrong of a revised edition and to eliminate a visual check by means of a manual operation by successively comparison-processing both screen display data of a present version and the revised edition with a generation file by means of a control program. CONSTITUTION:The control program 1 gives a test procedure and test data, both of which are inputted from a keyboard 14 and a mouse 15, to a tested program revised edition 2 and the present version 3 being the reference of the judgement of right or wrong. Then, two programs are executed in parallel by the same procedure. Then, a revised edition generation file 7 is compared with a present generation file 9 in a byte unit at first, and a revised edition screen buffer 8 is compared with a present screen buffer 10 in the byte unit. Since the screen display content of a tested program and the generation file can automatically be checked by the program, the visual check of result data such as the screen display content of the display and the generated sentence file for the judgement of a test result is eliminated and the efficiency of the test can be improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a method for automating testing of programs in a workstation.

[Conventional technology]

The conventional program method is described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 1986-11.
As described in No. 1549, program test key input data and corresponding screen data are stored in a storage medium and reused, so that program test 1-
This is to automate and reduce the number of man-hours required for eggplant production.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned conventional technology automates test input processing, but has the following problems.

- In the revised version of the test, the test procedure and test data used in the current version are entered and the test is executed, and the judgment of success or failure is made by visually checking the contents displayed on the screen. Also, various files that were affected (document files,
Table files and databases also require visual checks after printing, which takes a lot of man-hours.

An object of the present invention is to automate the determination of the accuracy of the results from Eggplant 1 through a program without relying on the image (2) display or visual check of printed matter.

[Means to solve the problem]

2.

In order to achieve the goal of ``10HI21'', a program serving as a criterion for determining success or failure and a program to be tested are executed in parallel in steps from 1 to 1 on a workstation.

Eggplant 1-Procedure/Test data inputted from the keyboard and mouse is processed via the control program into the current version, which serves as a criterion for determining success/failure, and the test subject I/object aiJ clothing.

In this way, the two programs have the same content. Therefore, the screen table and effect file will have exactly the same result. Since the control program sequentially compares and processes both screen display data and action files, the correctness of the revised version is automatically determined, eliminating the need for manual visual checking.

[Effect]

The control program is an automated tool that oversees the entire test and executes pass/fail judgment.

One of the roles of the control program is to provide the test procedure and test data entered from the keyboard and mouse as input data to the revised version of the program under test and the current version that serves as the standard for determining success or failure, and to run the two programs using the same procedure. This is a function to run in parallel. The other role is to determine whether the program under test is correct or not, and this is done by comparing the execution contents of the current standard version. These functions of the control program can automate the determination of success or failure.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. The second engineering drawing shows the hardware and rough 1 heue configuration. The hardware is the workstation body 16,
It consists of a display ↓7, a keyboard 14, and a mouse 15. The software consists of 08II, which supports multitasking and multiprocessing, control program 1, test target 1 to program revised version 2, and current version 3, which is the standard. The failure version creation file 7 is a file in which the revised version 2 of the program under test is created and the result data is stored on the disk. Similarly, the currently created file 9 is a file created by the current version 3 and stores the resulting data on the disk. The revised version screen buffer 8 is a screen buffer in memory used for displaying the revised version 2 of the program under test on the revised version screen 5 of the display 17. Similarly, the current ll! II song buffer 10 is a screen buffer in memory that current version 3 uses to display on current screen 6 of the display. The control screen 4 is a screen on which the control program displays a comparison completion message and the like.

The test execution procedure will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. The control program starts the program under test (
A). Next, start the current version (B). Upon startup, the revised version of the program under test enters the RIJN state (P), creates a new revised version creation file, then writes the contents of the initial screen to the revised version screen buffer, displays it on the revised version screen, and completes the process with WA. Enters IT state (
Q). Similarly, the current version is in a RUN state in parallel in a separate process due to the O8 process switch (T
), creates a new current creation file, then writes the contents of the initial screen to the current screen buffer and displays it on the current screen, and the process enters the WAIT state (U). The control program monitors that the processes under test 1 to the revised version of the program and the current version each switch from the RUN state to the WAIT state (D).
After shifting to 'l', a comparison check is started.

To compare, first, the revised version created file and the current created file are compared in bytes (E). Next, screen display is performed by comparing the revised screen buffer in memory and the current screen buffer in units of bytes (F). If the comparison process ends normally, a "completion message" is output to the control screen, and if there is a mismatch, an "error message" is output to the control screen (G). When the tester completes normally, the tester waits for key input (H
, ), and when one test data is input, this data is handed over to the revised version of the program under test (I).

Then pass the test data to the current version (J)
. When the test data is received, the revised version of the program under test enters the PtJN state (R), updates the file after executing the process, and changes the table 1111 to ``Ai''.
I U' (S).

When Ma-sama receives the current version of eggplant 1~ta, R
Is it in IJN state (V) and is the process being executed? -1, update the display screen, and execute "WALL" (W). The control program is tested 1 to the revised version of the block and the current Verjoy process, respectively, from RUN to W A I T.
We are monitoring the state of admiration (L), WAI'
After moving to l', a comparison check is started. As described above, the comparison method is to input the next test data after the completion of the comparison Y and continue the tests 1 to 1.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, as explained above, the program automatically checks the screen display contents of the program and the created file for test subject 1, so that conventionally, the screen display contents of the display had to be visually checked to judge the test result. The work becomes important. Furthermore, it is no longer necessary to visually check the result data such as created text files, table files, databases, etc., and the efficiency of testing can be greatly improved.

Figure 1 is a rough 1-ware and hardware configuration related diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, and Figure 2 is a flow chart of the execution of the control program and eggplant 1 target program shown in Figure 1. It is 1-.

1...Control program, 2...Test 1
~Program revised version, 3...Current version.

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a workstation consisting of a revised version of the program under test, a current version that serves as a reference, and a control program, test procedures and test data from the keyboard and mouse are transferred to the revised version and the current version via the control program, respectively. A program characterized in that the control program sequentially compares the display screen display during execution and the file being created, thereby determining whether the revised version is correct or not. Test method