JPS6167149A - Test program selecting system of peripheral device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To start quickly a test program by providing a main storage device of a system with the first table indicating the correspondence between individual peripheral devices and device types and the second table indicating the correspondence between device types and test programs and selecting both tables in accordance with the input of an operator. CONSTITUTION:A main storage device 2 is connected to a central processing unit 1 of a program selecting system and a channel controller 3. Peripheral devices 111-11n are connected to the controller 3 through peripheral controllers 101-10n. This main storage device 2 of the system is provided with the first table indicating the correspondence between device names of peripheral devices 111-11n and device types and the second table indicating the correspondence between device types and test programs. Contents of the first and the second table are searched in accordance with the peripheral device or channel number inputted by the operator to select the test programs corresponding to peripheral devices 111-11n by the controller 3, and thus, test programs are started quickly.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a data processing system composed of various peripheral devices, a channel control device, a main storage device, and a central processing unit, and is particularly applicable to peripheral devices. Test program selection method: Two related.

[subordination]

Conventionally, in this type of data processing system, it is common to create peripheral device test programs for each type of peripheral device, and for this reason, when testing a peripheral device, it is common to The operator directly instructed the name of the test program to be used.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, with this method, the operator must know in advance the test program for the desired peripheral device, resulting in low efficiency in manual operation, and C; It has drawbacks such as being prone to mistakes.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a peripheral device test program selection method that eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks of manual labor and automatically and quickly selects a test program for a peripheral device desired by an operator. .

[Means for solving problems]

The peripheral device test program selection method of the present invention includes a first table that is stored in the main storage device and shows the correspondence between each of the peripheral devices and the device type, and a second table that shows the correspondence between the device type and the test program. and the first one from the peripheral device name or channel number given by the operator.
and means for searching the second table and selecting a peripheral device test program corresponding to the peripheral device concerned.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a data processing system to which the peripheral device test program selection method of the present invention is applied.

Multiple peripheral devices 11. ．． 11. ,..., 11! I and corresponding peripheral control device 10. ．． 10. ,...,10
n is connected to the central processing unit 1 and the main storage device 2 via the channel control device 3.

The main storage device 2 has device types: , K, ,...
, each test program P11 P2 r..., pt
, Table 12 Table 2 (=peripheral equipment fFi11 as shown respectively)
1+11t+..., ii, and the corresponding device type,
, K, , ..., K- table (this is called a system resource table) and the device type Kl.

K1. . . . and the corresponding test program name p, .
p.

..., Pt table (this is called a test program table) is stored in advance.

Table 1 Table 2 Furthermore, the main storage device 2 stores a test program search program that searches Tables 1 and 2 for the test program name corresponding to the peripheral device name given by the operator. When the peripheral device name is given by the person, this test program search program is executed.

Next, the peripheral device test program selection operation in the data processing system shown in FIG. s1 will be explained based on the flowchart of the test program search program shown in FIG.

Obtain the peripheral device name given by the operator (process 101)
. This peripheral device name is compared with the peripheral device names in Table 1 from top to bottom (process 102), and it is checked whether they match (process 103). These processes 102 and 103 are repeated until an entry with a matching peripheral device name is found. When an entry with a matching peripheral device name is found, the corresponding device type is extracted from this entry (processing 104).
).

This device type is compared with the device details in Table 2 from top to bottom (process 105), and it is checked whether they match (process 106). These processes 105 and 106 are repeated until an entry with a matching device type is found. When an entry matching the device type is found, the corresponding test program name is extracted from this entry (process 107).
. lastly.

The test program with this test program name is started (process 108).

In this way, when the selected test program (-) is activated, the central processing unit
After that, the peripheral device selected by the operator is tested.

In this embodiment, the device name was specified by the operator, but even in the case of the channel number, if you register the channel/channel number instead of the device name in Table 1 (=), you can Test programs can be selected as well.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the present invention includes a first table that is stored in the frame main memory and shows the correspondence between each peripheral device and the device type, and a second table that shows the correspondence between the device type and the ##trial training program. table, and means for searching the first table and the second table based on the peripheral device name or channel number given by the operator to select a peripheral device test program corresponding to the peripheral device. so the desired peripheral device test program can be automatically run,
and quickly (=can be selected, therefore the test program can be started quickly).

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a data processing system to which the peripheral device test program selection method of the present invention is applied;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the procedure for searching and starting a test program, which is executed by the central processing unit 1 shown in FIG. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Central processing unit, 2...Main storage device, 6...Channel control device, 10, ,10. ,..., 10tl...peripheral control device, 11+, 11t,..., 11. . . . Peripheral devices, 101 to 108 . . . Operation steps of the test program search and startup procedure executed by the central processing unit 1. Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a data processing system comprising various peripheral devices, a channel control device, a main storage device, and a central processing unit, the main storage device stores a peripheral device test program that is executed from the central processing device to each of the peripheral devices. , a first table that is stored in the main memory and shows the correspondence between each of the peripheral devices and the device type; a second table that shows the correspondence between the device type and the test program; and a peripheral device given by the operator. 1. A peripheral device test program selection method comprising: means for searching said first table and said second table based on a name or a channel number to select a peripheral device test program corresponding to said peripheral device.