JPH11175370A - Program testing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent item omission by automatically preparing test items from screen design specifications. SOLUTION: The screen design specifications 20 are inputted, a test item preparation processing 10 is executed and a test item file 30 and a test item table file 31 are prepared. Also, by executing a screen item analysis processing 11, a snapshot file 32 is prepared from information fetched from an input device 21 and a screen item table file 33 is prepared based on the snapshot file. Further, a comparison processing 12 is executed, the prepared test item table file and screen item table file are compared and a compared result file 34 is prepared. Finally, a test result reflection processing 13 is executed and the entry of a result to the test item is performed from the compared result of the compared result file.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a test for a GUI control program, and more particularly to an automatic method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art GUI (Graphical User)
Interface) control program includes a menu,
Since an interactive screen including buttons and the like is provided, complicated operations can be performed interactively, and operability and efficiency can be improved.

The test items of the GUI section of the GUI control program need to be artificially created by extracting the "position" and "content" of the display items from the screen design specification.
For confirmation, it is necessary to visually compare and confirm the created test items and display items on the screen.

As described above, test items created artificially may cause omission of items. Also, in the confirmation, there is a possibility that the confirmation is visually omitted or the confirmation is incorrect.

[0005]

In the above-mentioned conventional test method, it is necessary to extract the "position" and "content" of the display item from the screen design specification and to create it artificially. Also,
For confirmation, it is necessary to visually compare and confirm the created test items and display items on the screen. However, both operations have a drawback that human errors such as omission of items, omission of confirmation, and erroneous confirmation are caused.

An object of the present invention is to prevent the omission of items by automatically creating test items from a screen design specification, and to improve the accuracy of confirmation.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention reads a screen specification table in a screen design specification and creates a test item and a test item table file. Analyzes the items displayed above, tabulates each item, creates a screen item table file, screen item analysis processing, compares the created test item table file with the screen item table file, and tests by comparison A comparison process for outputting a result and a test result reflection process for reflecting a test result on a test item from a comparison result file are provided.

[0008]

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

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention.
A main storage device stores 10 test item creation processes, 11 screen item analysis processes, 12 comparison processes, and 13 test result reflection processes.

Reference numeral 20 denotes a test item and a screen design specification for creating the test item, and reference numeral 21 denotes an input device for acquiring screen information.

Reference numeral 30 denotes a file storing test items created by the ten test item creation processes, and 31 denotes 1
0 is a file storing the test item table created by the test item creation processing, 32 is a file storing the screen information acquired from 20 as a snapshot, and 33 is a screen created by the 11 screen item analysis processing. File storing item table, 34 is 1
2 is a file that stores the comparison result created by the comparison process of FIG.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a file storing the created test item table and screen item table. The data obtained by the screen design specification 20 is created by the test item creation processing 10 into the label, attribute, start position,
It consists of data of the end point position.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a file storing test items. The data obtained by the screen design specification 20
Shows test items created based on the label, attribute, start point position, and end point position created by the test item creation processing 10.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a file storing the comparison result. It is a comparison result between the test item table file 31 and the screen item table file 32.
It consists of unmatched items and unmatched contents.

FIG. 5 shows an example of a process for creating a test item file 30 from the screen design specification 20. The screen specification table in the screen design specification document 20 is read (1).
00), it is determined whether the table is finished (101). If it is not the end of the table, the information of the label, attribute, start point position and end point position is extracted from the screen specification table (10
2). A test item table is created from the extracted information (103) and output as a test item table file (104). Further, a test item is created from the extracted information (105) and output as a test item file (106). This process is repeated until the end of the table.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a process for analyzing a screen item from the screen information acquired from the input device 21. Input device 2
Then, screen information is obtained from No. 1 (200). Output the acquired screen information as a snapshot file (201)
I do. The output snapshot file is read (202), and it is determined whether the file ends (203). If it is the end of the file, the process ends after deleting the snapshot file (210). If the end of the file is not reached, the coordinates of the snapshot file are calculated, and the attributes, start point position, end point position, and label are analyzed (2
04, 205, 206, 207). A screen item table having the same format as the test item table file 31 is created based on the analyzed information (208), and the screen item table file is output (209). This process is repeated until the end of the file.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a process for comparing the test item table file 31 with the screen item table file 33. The test item table file 31 and the screen item table file 33 are read (300, 301), and it is determined whether the file ends (302). If it is not the end of the file, each item is compared (303). A comparison result is created (304) from the comparison result,
Output (305) as a comparison result file. This process is repeated until the end of the file.

FIG. 8 shows an example of processing for reflecting the contents of the comparison result file 34 in the test item file 30. The comparison result file 34 and the test item file 30 are read (400, 401), and it is determined whether the end of the file (402). If it is not the end of the file, the judgment is extracted from the comparison result file 34 (403), and the judgment result is embedded in the judgment column of the target portion of the test item file (404). This process is repeated until the end of the comparison result file.

[0019]

According to the present invention, in a test method for a display item of a GUI control program, by automatically creating a test item and automating a test and a result judgment, the efficiency of the test can be improved, and Can be improved in accuracy.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a corresponding configuration example of a test item table and a screen item table.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a test item.

FIG. 4 is a data configuration diagram of a comparison result file according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a test item creation process in one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a screen item analysis process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a comparison process in one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a test result reflection process of a comparison result in one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Main storage device 10 ... Test item creation processing 11 ... Screen item analysis processing 12
... Comparison processing, 13 ... Test result reflection processing, 2
0: screen design specification, 21: input device,
30: test item file, 31: test item table file, 32: snapshot file,
33: screen item table file, 34: comparison result file, 100 to 106: processing, 20
0-210 ... processing, 300-305 ... processing,
400 to 404 processing.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a test method for display items of a GUI control program, based on table information created from a screen design specification and information obtained by tabulating display items on a screen, a test item of a test item is A test method characterized in that a test result for an automatically generated test item is automatically determined by performing automatic creation and automatic comparison with a display item on a screen as a test result.