JPH07191880A - Test supporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of test work, to accelerate the test work, to unify tested result materials and to provide the standard worked result not depending on individual levels by automatically processing all the processes of a test in an interactive form. CONSTITUTION:A test supporting device 1 is composed of a branching instruction extracting/analyzing means 11, test item deciding means 12, test executing means 13 and test specification editing means 14. Then, a function of automatically processing all the processes of the test from specification preparation (the extraction of a test item and the preparation of test data) through the execution of the test and the confirmation of the tested result to the result material preparation of the test in the interactive form is introduced to a program development supporting tool. Thus, any problem such as test pattern extraction miss or test re-execution caused by the non-completion of test data generated in the case of conventional manual work can be avoided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a program development support tool, and more particularly to a test support device for automating a test process.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a device for supporting a test process in program development, there is a technique for automatically creating a test specification for each target program when a program developer conducts a test. It is disclosed in the official gazette.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 04-147351 discloses a technique for automating a test process by compiling a program to be tested by a program generating means.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 03-282637, the preparation of the specification to be tested is automated, but the actual test is performed by the operator by the test specification. It had to be done manually based on the calligraphy.

Further, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 04-147351, the test cannot be performed unless the program to be tested is first compiled by the program generating means. Also, because the test method is also done in batch format,
There was a problem that the operator could not do it unless he was familiar with the test operation procedure.

In view of the above points, the present invention automates all the test steps, that is, creating specifications (test item extraction, test data creation) to test execution, test result confirmation, and test result material creation. The purpose was to be able to automatically process up to.

[0007]

A test support apparatus according to the present invention reads a test target program from a program library into a main storage area, and for all sub-procedures which are constituent elements of the program, a branch instruction existing therein. Extract
Register the command statement, start line, and end line in the branch instruction registration table with a management number, analyze the events that occur for all branch instructions extracted here, and extract the test pattern,
Branch instruction extraction / analysis means for registering the test pattern portion of the correspondence table of test data and expected output value, and a list of subprocedures in the program are displayed on the screen, and when the subprocedure to be tested is selected, the corresponding subprocedure is selected. Is displayed on the screen, the start line of the branch instruction is acquired from the branch instruction registration table, the line of the relevant statement displayed on the screen is blinked, and the test data for that statement and the expected output value for that are displayed. Values and test confirmation items are requested interactively and input, and the registration process to the correspondence table of the test data and the expected output value is performed for all the selected sub-procedures, and all the test target After completing the registration of the test data and the expected output value for the subprocedure in the correspondence table, the subprocedure list is displayed again on the screen, and the process of terminating this process by selecting end process Change the test data to the value of each item of the test data specified in the correspondence table of the test data and the expected output value when executing the branch instruction, execute the test, and display the result in the output result table. The registration process is repeated for all test patterns, and if an execution error occurs during test execution, the test execution means that interrupts the test execution process and reports error information, and the execution error does not occur When the execution of the test for the pattern and the registration in the output result table are completed normally, the test for editing and outputting the test specifications by comparing the correspondence table of the test data and the expected output value with the output result table And a specification editing means.

[0008]

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the present invention.
The test support device 1 includes a branch instruction extraction / analysis means 11,
It has a test item determining means 12, a test executing means 13, and a test specification editing means 14.

2 and 3 are a series of flowcharts showing the processing operation of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a correspondence table of test data and expected output values, which has a management number of the relevant statement, a test confirmation item, a test pattern, test data corresponding to this test pattern, and an expected output value. Then, the case of the command statement with the management number 1 (corresponding to the processing from the 277th line to the 286th line in FIG. 6) is taken as a specific example. That is,
The statement with the management number 1 performs the test confirmation item "Confirmation of determination of center transfer / online transfer". Is it true that the center transfer bit is binary "1" as a test pattern? Or if it is true that the online transfer bit is binary "1", it is true that the center transfer bit is binary "1" or the online transfer bit is binary "1".
If it is false that the center transfer bit is binary "1" or if the online transfer bit is binary "1" is true, then the center transfer bit is There are four possible test patterns in which the binary "1" is false or the online transfer bit is binary "1" is false, and W is set as the expected output value corresponding to each pattern. Should the target TRX display be "N"?
Whether or not it should be Y ”is entered.

FIG. 5 is a specific example of the sub procedure configuration list screen.

FIG. 6 shows a structured programming technique of a sub-procedure called "B32-TRX check" (corresponding to a sub-module constituting a program), which is used as a specific example when explaining the embodiment of the present invention. SPD (Structured Procedure)
ram Diagram) is shown.

Here, the meaning of FIG. 6 will be briefly described.

Line number 000 displayed at the beginning of FIG.
274, this sub procedure (SUBPROC) is "B32
-TRX check ".

From line number 0277 to line number 0028
If the center transfer bit is binary "1" or the online transfer bit is binary "1", the process up to 3 sets "N" in the W target TRX display and returns to the upper block (this It returns to the place where the SUB PROC is called). Also, from line number 000287 to line number 000306
In the processing up to, the value of the W current swing code is "1" or "
In the case of 2 "or" 3 ", set" Y "to the W target TRX display, and if the value of the W current allocation code is" 5 ", if the W denomination code is from" 2 "to" 9 " If either
"Y" is set in the W target TRX display, otherwise, "N" is set in the W target TRX display, and the value of the W present swing code is "1", "2", "3", If the value is other than "5", it means that "N" is set in the W target TRX display.

FIG. 7 is a specific example of the output result table.

FIG. 8 is a specific example of the branch instruction registration table.
A command number is assigned to each command statement in the program to manage the start line and end line of each command statement.

2 and 3 with reference to all drawings
The processing operation of the present invention will be described along the flow of.

When the operator selects the test support function from the menu screen of the program development support tool, the test support device 1 incorporated in the program development support tool is activated (step 21).

The test support device 1 activated by the operator activates the branch instruction extraction / analysis means 11 and requests the operator to input the program name of the test target, and the operator inputs the program name of the test target from the input device. Input (step 22).

The test support device 1 reads the corresponding program from the system program library into the main storage area (step 23).

The program read into the main memory area is composed of a plurality of subprocedures corresponding to the submodules of the program, and the branch instruction extracting / analyzing means 11 exists in all the subprocedures. The branch instructions to be extracted are sequentially extracted, and management statements are sequentially assigned to register the statement, start line, and end line in the branch instruction registration table 15 shown in FIG. 8 (step 24).

Further, the branch instruction extracting / analyzing means 11 analyzes the events occurring for all the branch instructions extracted here to extract the test pattern, and the correspondence between the test data shown in FIG. 4 and the expected output value. A portion corresponding to the test pattern in Table 18 is created and registered in the correspondence table 18 between the test data and the expected output value (step 25).

Next, the test item determining means 12 is activated,
List 1 of subprocedures in the program as shown in FIG.
6 is displayed on the screen (step 26).

The operator selects a subprocedure to be tested from this screen and inputs it from the input device. At this time, the operator can select all the subprocedures or only one or a plurality of subprocedures (step 27).

When a sub-procedure is selected, the corresponding sub-procedures are sequentially displayed in the SPD (Structu) as shown in FIG.
It is displayed on the screen in the red Program Diagram format (step 28). The test item determination means 12 obtains the start line of the branch instruction from the branch instruction registration table 15, blinks the line of the relevant statement displayed on the screen, and makes the test data for the statement and the expected output value thereof. The operator is requested to input the value of (step 29). The operator interactively inputs the required test data and the value of the expected output value corresponding to the requested test data, and also inputs the test confirmation items (step 30). Referring to the branch instruction registration table 15, for all test patterns of all applicable instruction statements,
Enter the test data and the expected output value for it,
The test data and the expected output value are registered in the correspondence table 18 (step 31). This similar operation is performed for all the selected subprocedures, and the correspondence table 18 of the test data and the expected output values of all the subprocedures for which the test is executed is performed.
To complete registration (step 32).

The subprocedure list 16 is again displayed on the screen, and when the operator selects the end process (step 3).
3), the test item determining means 12 is the test executing means 13
Is started (step 34), and the test is executed according to the test data registered in the correspondence table 18 of the test data and the expected output value (step 35).

The test execution means 13 uses the branch instruction registration table 1
5, the test data and the expected output value correspondence table 18 are referred to, and when the branch instruction is executed, the value is changed to the value of each item of the test data specified in the correspondence table 18 between the test data and the expected output value, and the test is executed. The result is registered in the output result table 19. This is repeated for all the patterns registered in the correspondence table 18 of the test data and the expected output value (steps 36, 38, 39).

If an execution error such as a program abort occurs during the test execution, the test execution process is immediately interrupted and the operator is notified of the test data in error, the line number of the error occurrence, the error message, etc. ( Steps 36, 37).

When an execution error such as a program abort does not occur and the test execution for all test patterns and the registration in the output result table 19 are normally completed, the test execution means 13 activates the test specification editing means 14. (Step 40).

The test specification editing means 14 compares the correspondence table 18 of the test data and the expected output value with the output result table 19 to describe the test confirmation item, the test data, the expected output value, the test result and the like. Test specification 20
Is edited and output (step 41).

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention, the program development support tool uses all the steps of the test, that is, specifications (extraction of test items, creation of test data) to test execution, test result confirmation, and test execution. By introducing a function that can automatically process the creation of the result material in an interactive manner, the test pattern extraction omission that occurred when a manual operation was performed by a person in the past, and the test re-execution due to inadequate test data creation, You can avoid the problem,
It is possible to improve efficiency and speed of test work. Further, since the test result materials can be standardized, there is an effect that a standard work result that does not depend on the level of the individual who tests can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing operation of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing operation of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a correspondence table of test data of the present invention and expected output values.

FIG. 5 is a specific example of a sub procedure configuration list screen of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a sub-procedure called “B32-TRX check” (corresponding to a sub-module that constitutes a program), which is used as a specific example when describing the embodiment of the present invention.
Is a flowchart of the structured programming technique of S
PD (Structured Program Di)
agram).

FIG. 7 is a specific example of an output result table.

FIG. 8 is a specific example of a branch instruction registration table of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Test Support Device 11 Branch Instruction Extraction / Analysis Means 12 Test Item Determining Means 13 Test Executing Means 14 Test Specification Editing Means 15 Branch Instruction Registration Table 16 Subprocedure List 17 SPD Format Program 18 Correspondence Table of Test Data and Output Expected Value 19 Output Result table 20 Test specifications 21 to 41 steps

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a test process of a program development support tool, a branch instruction existing in all subprocedures that are components of a program to be tested is extracted, and a management number is attached to a statement, a start line and an end line. To the branch instruction registration table, analyze the events that occur for all the extracted branch instructions, extract the test pattern, and register the test pattern portion of the correspondence table of the test data and the expected output value. The extraction / analysis means and the list of subprocedures in the program are displayed on the screen. When the subprocedure to be tested is selected, the corresponding subprocedure is displayed on the screen and the start line of the branch instruction from the branch instruction registration table is displayed. Blink the line of the relevant command statement that was acquired and displayed on the screen, and test data for that command statement, the value of the expected output value for this test data, and the test confirmation item. The input is requested interactively and input, the registration process to the correspondence table is performed for all the selected sub-procedures, and after the registration to the correspondence table for all the sub-procedures to be tested, the process is performed again. Display a list of subprocedures on the screen and change the test data to the value of each item of the test data specified in the above correspondence table when the branch instruction is executed and the test item deciding means that terminates this process. Then, execute the test and repeat the process of registering the result in the output result table for all test patterns. If an execution error occurs during the test execution, interrupt the test execution process and notify the error information. When the test execution means and the execution error do not occur and the test execution for all test patterns and the registration in the output result table are completed normally, the correspondence table and the output A test support device comprising: a test specification editing means for editing and outputting a test specification by comparing a force result table.