JPH11288380A - Evaluation device for interface between software development tools, and storage medium recorded with program for evaluation - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To evaluate an interface without depending on the operation specifications and realization period of a software development tool to be a transmission opposite party. SOLUTION: A message input part 103 inputs a message exchanged between an evaluation object software development tool 110 and a relating software development tool 111 and a message recording part 105 outputs message information to a script file 113 together with transmission destination information. A message read part 106 reads the message information and the transmission destination information from the script file 113 and they are transmitted to a transmission destination by a message transmission part 107. The message information read in the message read part 106 and a return value and return data from the transmission destination for the message information are compared in a message comparison part 108 and a compared result is displayed at an output device 112 by a result display part 109.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to an apparatus for evaluating an interface between software development tools.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a software development tool to be evaluated and a related software development tool as a communication partner are actually operated, the operation information is recorded in a script file, the script file is input, and the same operation is reproduced. By doing so, the software development tools were automatically evaluated.

An example of a conventional system is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-40 / 1993.
No. 593. In the publication, a window-related operation history is stored as a window system, and the history is acquired to reproduce a window operation.

[0004]

The prior art described above is
There were the following problems.

A first problem is that not only a software development tool to be evaluated at the time of evaluation but also a related software development tool to be a communication partner is required. The reason is that information on the actual operation of the software development tool is recorded, and evaluation is performed by reproducing the operation on the software development tool.

[0006] The second problem is that there must be no change in the operation method of not only the software development tool to be evaluated but also the related software development tool to be communicated with. The reason is that, when the operation procedure or the like is changed due to a specification change, a script file in which the operation method or the operation procedure of the software development tool is recorded cannot be used.

An object of the present invention is to provide an interface evaluation apparatus between software development tools which can evaluate an interface without depending on the operation specifications of a software development tool to be transmitted.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an interface evaluation apparatus between software development tools which can evaluate an interface by manually creating a script file without depending on the realization time of a software development tool to be transmitted. Is to do.

[0009]

According to the present invention, there is provided an interface evaluation apparatus between software development tools, comprising: means for inputting a message exchanged between a software development tool to be evaluated and a related software development tool; Means for outputting to a file, means for reading message information and destination information from a script file, means for transmitting the read message information to a destination software development tool, and means for transmitting the transmitted message information and the destination software development tool. And a means for comparing the received message with the received message to detect a match / mismatch.

The first software development tool interface evaluation apparatus of the present invention scans a message. More specifically, it has means for inputting necessary messages from all messages in the system and outputting them to a script file.

The second software development tool interface evaluation apparatus of the present invention relays messages between software development tools. More specifically, while receiving messages from the sender and forwarding them to the destination,
It has means for outputting a message to a script file.

[0012] The third inter-software development tool interface evaluation device of the present invention receives a message from a software development tool. More specifically, it has means for receiving a transmission message, a return value, and return data from a transmission source and outputting the received message to a script file.

[0013]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, a first embodiment of the present invention comprises a software development tool interface evaluation device 101, an evaluation target software development tool 110, a related software development tool 111, an output device 112, and a script file 113. Including.

A software development tool interface evaluation apparatus 101 includes a control unit 102 and a message input unit 1
03, message display unit 104, and message recording unit 10
5, message reading unit 106 and message transmitting unit 107
And a message comparing unit 108 and a result displaying unit 109.

The control unit 102 switches the operation of inputting a message and recording, or inputting a script file 113 and performing evaluation. In the following description, the description of the control unit 102 will be omitted. Message input unit 103
Inputs a message exchanged between the evaluation target software development tool 110 and the related software development tool 111. The message display unit 104 outputs the message information and the destination information input by the message input unit 103 to the output device 112. The message recording unit 105 outputs the message information and the destination information input by the message input unit 103 to the script file 113. The message reading unit 106 reads message information and transmission destination information from the script file 113. The message transmitting unit 107 transmits the read message information to the destination indicated by the destination information, and receives a return value and return data from the destination. The message comparing unit 108 compares the read message information with a return value and return data from the transmission destination, and detects a match / mismatch. Result display section 109
Outputs the result of the message comparison to the output device 112.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described in detail.

First, the recording of message information will be described.

First, as shown in FIG. 2, the message input unit 103 selects only messages exchanged between the software development tool 110 to be evaluated and the related software development tool 111 from among all messages transmitted between the systems. Enter Specifically, a window handle, which can be said to be an identifier of both software development tools, is checked to determine whether the message is a necessary message. If the message is a necessary message, this is input. Next, the message display unit 104 outputs the message information input by the message input unit 103 to the output device 112 together with the destination information. Specifically, display on a display device, printing on a printer, and the like are performed. Finally, the message recording unit 105 outputs the message information and the destination information input by the message input unit 103 to the script file 113.
If possible, the data may be output to a temporary recording medium in a memory or the like, and may be output to the script file 113 when the recording is completed.

The recording of the message information is completed by repeating the above processing.

Next, the operation of evaluating a message will be described.

First, in the message reading unit 106, the message recording unit 105 reads message information and transmission destination information from the script file 113 to which the message information has been output. The script file 113 may be created or modified manually. Next, the message transmitting unit 107 transmits the message information read by the message reading unit 106 to the destination indicated by the destination information. Next, the message comparison unit 108 compares the message information read by the message reading unit 106 with the return value and the return data for the message sent by the message transmission unit 107, and detects a match / mismatch.
Finally, the result display unit 109 displays the message comparison unit 108
Is output to the output device 112.

The above processing is repeated until the message information in the script file 113 is exhausted, and the message evaluation is completed.

The process of inputting and recording a message and the process of inputting and evaluating a script file 113 may be separated. The message display unit 104 is not always necessary. Further, the result display unit 109 may output the comparison result to a file instead of outputting to the output device 112.

In the present embodiment, since necessary messages are inputted from all messages in the system, evaluation between software development tools is realized without adding extra processing to the software development tool 110 to be evaluated and the related software development tool 111. Since it is possible, the burden on the software development tool 110 is eliminated.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described using a specific example.

FIG. 5 shows a specific example of a message input by the message input unit 103. For the sake of explanation, it is assumed that the software development tool 110 to be evaluated is a debugger and the related software development tool 111 is a software development tool (referred to as an extended debugger) for acquiring information from the debugger.

SEND :, RSLT :, RE at the beginning of each line in FIG.
CV: is an identifier indicating transmission data, a return value, and return data, respectively. The next value 0x10001200 is the window handle of the debugger that is the destination. After the next TipGetMem, the content of the communication message is a request to the debugger to acquire the content of the memory of 0x4 bytes from the address 0xf000. The last number in the RSLT: line is the return value for the sent message. Data added to RECV: RSLLT 0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78 is the result of reading the contents of the memory of 0x4 bytes from address 0xf000.

Thus, in this message, a memory acquisition request message is transmitted from the extended debugger to the debugger, and the return value is 0, indicating that the content of the read memory is stored in the return data.

First, recording of message information will be described.

The message input unit 103 inputs only a message exchanged between the evaluation target software development tool 110 and the related software development tool 111 from all messages transmitted between the systems.
Specifically, a window handle, which can be said to be an identifier of both software development tools, is checked to determine whether the message is necessary, and a message is input. Next, the message display unit 104 outputs the message information shown in FIG. Finally, the message recording unit 10
In step 5, the message information shown in FIG.

The recording of the message information is completed by repeating the above processing.

Next, the operation of evaluating a message will be described.

First, the message reading unit 106 reads the message information shown in FIG. Next, in the message transmitting unit 107, FIG.
Is sent to the debugger whose window handle is 0x10001200. Next, the message comparison unit 108 compares the return value of the second line of the message information shown in FIG. 5 with the value returned from the debugger. Further, the memory contents of 4 bytes in the third line of the message information shown in FIG. 5 are compared with the memory contents as return data. Finally, the result display unit 109
Outputs the comparison result of the message comparing unit 108 to the output device 11
Output to 2.

The above processing is repeated until the message information in the script file 113 is exhausted, and the message evaluation is completed.

The above processing makes it possible to record and evaluate messages between software development tools.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

First, as shown in FIG. 3, the message input unit 103 receives a transmission message from the related software development tool 111 and transfers it to the evaluation target software development tool 110. Next, the return value and the return data from the evaluation target software development tool 110 are returned to the related software development tool 111. Next, the message display unit 104 displays the related software development tool 111.
And the return value and return data from the evaluation target software development tool 110 together with the destination information are output to the output device 112. Finally, the message recording unit 105 outputs the above-described message information to the script file 113. If possible, the data may be output to a temporary recording medium in a memory or the like, and may be output to the script file 113 when the recording is completed.

Recording of message information is completed by repeating the above processing.

The operation of evaluating a message is the same as that of the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, in order to receive a transmission message from the related software development tool 111 and a return value and return data from the evaluation target software development tool 110, a necessary message is selected from all messages transmitted and received between the systems. This eliminates the need for the operation of extracting the message, and as a result, the load on the message input unit 103 is reduced as compared with the first embodiment, and the execution speed is improved.

Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described.

First, the message input unit 103 receives a transmission message from the related software development tool 111 as shown in FIG. Next, a return value and return data are received from the evaluation target software development tool 110.
In parallel with this operation, the related software development tool 11
1 and the evaluation target software development tool 110 are communicating. Next, the message display unit 104 outputs the transmission message received from the related software development tool 111 and the return value and the return data received from the evaluation target software development tool 110 to the output device 112 together with the destination information. Finally, the message recording unit 1
In step 05, the above-described message information is output to the script file 113. If possible, the data may be output to a temporary recording medium in a memory or the like, and may be output to the script file 113 when the recording is completed.

Recording of message information is completed by repeating the above processing.

The operation of evaluating a message is the same as that of the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, in order to receive a transmission message from the related software development tool 111 and a return value and return data from the evaluation target software development tool 110, a necessary message is selected from all messages transmitted and received between the systems. This eliminates the need for the operation of extracting the message, and as a result, the load on the message input unit 103 is reduced as compared with the first embodiment, and the execution speed is improved. Further, in the second embodiment, since the inter-software development tool interface evaluation device 101 relays a message, an inter-software development tool interface evaluation device is required. However, in this embodiment, the operation is possible even without the software development tool interface evaluation device. In that case, unnecessary messages do not need to be transmitted, and the evaluation target software development tool 110 and the related software development tool 11
It is possible to evaluate the interface between software development tools without imposing a load on the software development tool.

Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described.

Referring to FIG. 6, according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention, an evaluation target software development tool 110, a related software development tool 111, an output device 112, a script file 113, a software related tool in FIG. A storage medium 202 such as an FD, a CD-ROM, and a semiconductor memory, which records an interface evaluation program between software development tools including processing of each unit in the inter-interface evaluation apparatus 101, and an interface evaluation program between software development tools from the recording medium 202. It comprises a data processing device 201 for reading and executing.

[0049]

As described above, the present invention has the following effects.

1) If there is only a software development tool to be evaluated at the time of evaluation, there is no need for a related software development tool for performing communication. The reason is that the evaluation is performed by transmitting and receiving the message to be transmitted and received in place of the related software development tool.

2) Not only the software development tool to be evaluated, but also the operation method of both related software development tools for communication may be changed. The reason is that only stored message information is used,
This is because it is not necessary to consider what operation has been performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of first, second and third embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a message input unit 1 according to the first embodiment.
It is a figure showing operation of 03.

FIG. 3 is a message input unit 1 according to a second embodiment.
It is a figure showing operation of 03.

FIG. 4 is a message input unit 1 according to a third embodiment.
It is a figure showing operation of 03.

FIG. 5 is an example of message information in the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a fourth exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 101 Interface evaluation device between software development tools 102 Control unit 103 Message input unit 104 Message display unit 105 Message recording unit 106 Message reading unit 107 Message transmission unit 108 Message comparison unit 109 Result display unit 110 Evaluation target software development tool 111 Related software development tool 112 output device 113 script file 201 data processing device 202 recording medium

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A means for inputting a transmission / reception message exchanged between an evaluation target software development tool and a related software development tool; a means for outputting the message information together with transmission destination information to a script file; Means for reading the destination information, means for transmitting the read message information to the destination software development tool, and comparing the transmitted message information with the received message information from the destination software development tool to detect a match / mismatch An interface evaluation device between software development tools having a means for performing. 2. The apparatus for evaluating an interface between software development tools according to claim 1, further comprising means for displaying the message information and the destination information. 3. The software development tool interface evaluation apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a unit for displaying the comparison result. 4. The means for inputting the transmission message,
The interface evaluation apparatus between software development tools according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a message is relayed between the software development tool to be evaluated and the related software development tool. 5. A means for inputting the transmission / reception message, comprising: a transmission message from the related software development tool; and a transmission message from the evaluation target software development tool.
The interface evaluation apparatus between software development tools according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a reception message corresponding to the transmission message is input. 6. A process for inputting a transmission / reception message exchanged between an evaluation target software development tool and a related software development tool, a process for outputting the message information together with transmission destination information to a script file, and a process for retrieving message information from the script file. The process of reading the destination information, the process of transmitting the read message information to the destination software development tool, and comparing the transmitted message information with the received message information from the destination software development tool to detect a match / mismatch Recording medium for recording an interface evaluation program between software development tools for causing a computer to execute processing to be performed. 7. The recording medium according to claim 6, further comprising a process of displaying the message information and the destination information. 8. The recording medium according to claim 6, further comprising a process of displaying the comparison result.