JPH05249187A - Inspecting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To execute an inspection for confirming the operation of a device to be inspected by producing inspecting procedures containing interrupting operations by registering normal operating procedures. CONSTITUTION:When an operation signal is inputted to a control section 102, a device 100 to be inspect can be controlled as if the device 100 is operated from an operating section 101. When normal operating procedures are registered in advance and interrupting operations are inserted in each step at the time of executing inspections, inspections can be executed including abnormal operations. In addition, when normal responding contents to each operating procedure and state changes obtained when the interrupting operations are executed are registered in advance, inspected results discriminating work can also be automated.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an inspection apparatus for confirming the operation of an inspected machine whose control section is driven by an input from an operating section.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In products such as facsimiles and telephones in which the operation of the main body is controlled by operation from an operation section (panel), it is necessary to confirm whether or not the operation intended at the time of design is realized. There is an inspection device that transmits an operation signal according to a preset procedure and then confirms the response content of the product (see Japanese Patent Publication No. 2-151043).

[0003]

In the above-mentioned inspection apparatus, it is necessary to register all the operation procedures for inspection in advance. For example, the response when the operation is interrupted at each step of the operation procedure is inspected. In this case, the work is complicated because the registration data becomes huge.

[0004]

An inspection apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention is an inspection apparatus for inspecting a non-inspection machine consisting of an operation section, a control section and an output section, and records the operation procedure of the machine to be inspected. Operation data recording device, an inspection data generation device that reads out an operation procedure from the operation data recording device and generates an inspection operation procedure, and converts the operation procedure output by the inspection data generation device into an internal signal of the device under inspection. It comprises an operation signal conversion device for transmitting to the control unit, an output signal detection device for detecting a signal transmitted by the control unit to the output unit and converting it into response data, and a recording device for recording the response data.

An inspection apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention comprises an operation data recording apparatus for recording the operation procedure of the inspected machine, an inspection data generation apparatus for reading out the operation procedure from the operation data recording apparatus and generating an inspection operation procedure, An operation signal conversion device for converting the operation procedure output by the inspection data generation device into an internal signal of the device under test and transmitting it to the control unit, a response data recording device for recording the response content of the device under test, and the operation procedure Response data generating device that selects the response content corresponding to the response data recording device, an output signal detecting device that detects a signal transmitted by the control unit to the output unit, and the signal and the response data generating device And a comparison device for comparing the response data.

[0006]

For example, in a device in which the operation section and the main body are electrically connected, the same electric signal as the signal generated by the operation section is transmitted to the main body, so that the main body is operated as if the operation section was operated. Can be controlled. In addition, by registering a normal operating procedure in advance and inserting an interrupting operation in each step when performing an inspection, an inspection including an abnormal operation can be executed. Further, by registering the normal response contents for each operation procedure and the state change when the interruption operation is performed, the inspection determination work can be automated.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 100 denotes an operation unit 101, a control unit 102 and an output unit 10 which are objects of the present invention.
3 is a device to be inspected. The operation unit 101 is an input device configured of buttons and key devices for controlling the device under test 100 by a physical operation of an operator. The control unit 102 realizes the function of the device under test 100 according to the input from the input unit 101 and outputs the response to the output unit 103. The output unit 103 is composed of a lamp, a liquid crystal display, etc., and changes its state under the control of the control unit 102.
That is, the control unit 10 responds to an operation from the operation unit 101.
2 performs a predetermined operation and outputs the response to the output unit 103.

Here, as an example of the inspected machine 100, a virtual facsimile machine 2 whose interactive portion is shown in FIG.
The operation of the present invention will be described using 00. Facsimile 2
It is assumed that the input device of 00 is composed of a numeric key 201 and a function key 202, and has a liquid crystal display device capable of displaying katakana and numbers as the output unit 203. And
The operation of the first invention will be described assuming that the facsimile 200 has a function of registering a destination telephone number by the operation procedure shown in FIG. 3, for example. However, it is assumed that each operation procedure shown in FIG. 3 represents pressing of a button having a corresponding name in 201 and 202 in FIG.

In the operation data recording device 13, operation procedures necessary for inspection as shown in FIG. 3 are registered. The operation data generation device 12 reads this operation procedure and generates a plurality of inspection operation data in which an interrupt operation (pressing the "stop" key) is inserted at each step of the operation.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the inspection operation data generated for the operation procedure of FIG. Operation signal converter 11
Converts the inspection operation data into an internal signal of the facsimile 200 and sequentially transmits it to the control unit 102. As a result, the control unit 102 executes the same process as when the inspection operation data is input from the operation unit 101. The output signal detection device 15 detects the response signal sent from the control unit 102 to the output unit 103 (the liquid crystal display unit 203 in the example of the facsimile 200), changes the data into an appropriate data format such as text, and the recording device 14 To record. Then, the inspector analyzes the recorded contents to inspect whether or not a predetermined operation is realized in the inspected device 100 when the interruption operation at each stage of the operation procedure is inserted. ..

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the second invention. In FIG. 5, the device under test 100, the operation signal conversion device 11, the operation data recording device 13, and the output signal detection device 15 are the same as the devices described in the embodiment shown in FIG.

The response data recording device 51 includes 60 in FIG.
1 shows an example thereof, for each step of the inspection operation procedure registered in the operation data recording device 13,
Contents to be displayed on the liquid crystal display unit 203 are recorded. Further, the response data recording device 51 includes 60 in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2, a number indicating the response content when the “stop” key is pressed at each step of the inspection operation procedure is recorded.

Usually, the state change due to the interruption operation is defined by the operation of returning to a certain stage in a series of dialogues. For example, the normal response contents when the "Cancel" key is pressed in the state in which the response content is "Sofusaki Torooku Atesaki =" immediately after the operation procedure 3 "Select" shown in FIG. Response content after "It is set as" NORMAL SELECT ". The comparison device 52 is the inspection data generation device 1
2 reads the operation procedure for inspection output from the response data recording device 51 and retrieves the response content corresponding to each procedure.
For the output of the "stop" key, the content of the response to be output by the facsimile 200 is searched by referring to the number 602 in FIG. Further, the comparison device 52 compares the response content with the output of the output signal detection device 15 and outputs a result indicating whether the two are equal. If the two contents are the same, the device under test 100 is operating normally, and if the contents are not the same, it is determined that the operation is abnormal, so that an automated inspection of part of the work can be realized. .

[0015]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the inspection apparatus of the present invention, by registering the normal operation procedure in advance, the operation of the inspected machine when the interrupting operation is performed on the way. Can be inspected. Further, by registering the response content to the normal operation and the state change at the time of the interruption operation in advance, the determination work in the above inspection can be automatically performed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a first invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of an inspection device targeted by the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an operation procedure of the inspection device targeted by the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of inspection data generated by an inspection data generation device constituting the first invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the second invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a response data recording system in a response data recording apparatus constituting the second invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Operation Signal Conversion Device 12 Inspection Data Generation Device 13 Operation Data Recording Device 14 Recording Device 15 Output Signal Detection Device 51 Response Data Recording Device 52 Comparison Device 100 Inspected Device 101 Operation Unit 102 Control Unit 103 Output Unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An inspection apparatus for inspecting a non-inspection machine comprising an operation section, a control section, and an output section, the operation data recording apparatus recording operation procedures of the inspected machine, and the operation data recording apparatus. An inspection data generation device for reading out an operation procedure and generating an inspection operation procedure; an operation signal conversion device for converting the operation procedure output by the inspection data generation device into an internal signal of the device under inspection and transmitting it to the control unit; An inspection apparatus comprising: an output signal detection device that detects a signal transmitted to the output unit by the control unit and converts the signal into response data; and a recording device that records the response data. 2. An operation data recording device for recording an operation procedure of a device to be inspected, an inspection data generation device for reading out the operation procedure from the operation data recording device and generating an inspection operation procedure, and an output from the inspection data generation device. The operation signal converter for converting the operating procedure to an internal signal of the device under test and transmitting it to the control unit, the response data recording device for recording the response content of the device under test, and the response content corresponding to the operating procedure A response data generating device selected from the response data recording device, an output signal detecting device detecting the signal transmitted by the control unit to the output unit, and a comparison comparing the signal with the response data selected by the response data generating device An inspection apparatus comprising: a device.