TW200410065A - Automatic testing method under Windows operating system environment - Google Patents

Abstract

An automatic testing method under Windows operating system (OS) environment let user input a parameter intended to configure for automatically executing testing procedure by virtue of an electronic data processing device and store the parameters of completed configuration in a database. Secondly, let user select and execute the configured testing procedure using the electronic data processing device. Furthermore, during process of executing the testing procedure, display operation actions on the display unit of the electronic data processing device. Finally, when finishing execution of the testing procedure, display the test execution result on the display unit. Through the automatic testing method under the Windows OS environment, user can proceed multiple complicated system and program testing jobs by way of unattended operation.

Description

200410065 5 > Description of the invention α) 1 [Technical field to which the invention belongs] / An automatic test method under a window operation environment, more specifically, it relates to a method for executing program parameters through a user input for use in a window operation environment Next, perform the automatic test method. -[Previous technology] In response to the advent of the era of information popularization, many powerful electronic information products are being introduced from time to time, such as personal computers, notebook computers, palmtop computers, or personal digital assistants. Most of these electronic information products are composed of hundreds or hundreds of components, and in order to achieve the purpose of providing users with information processing information, the operating system software, word processing software or Web browsing software is installed in the storage unit of these electronic data processing devices. Then, the user inputs the command or parameter to be executed through the input unit of the electronic data processing device, such as a keyboard, a mouse, or a touchpad. Finally, the application program in the electronic data processing device executes the result desired by the user according to the instruction or parameter. Before acceptance, after the hardware mechanism components of the electronic data processing device are assembled, a certain test procedure must be passed to ensure that the hardware mechanism components meet the predetermined specifications and can be used by the user for normal operation. In contrast, in terms of system programs or other applications, after being installed in the electronic information processing storage unit, certain test procedures must also be passed to ensure that the system programs or other applications function properly. The stability of the above-mentioned system programs or applications must usually be tested after a considerable period of time before they can be confirmed. For example, if you want to test the stability of applications, web servers, and data servers, you have learned in advance that the system can cope with ten consecutive uninterrupted periods.

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t, A V. Invention description (2) Whether the response required by the treatment is normal. Or it was found through systematic testing that no potential software bugs were released in the memory. However, in the conventional technology, when a user wants to perform a long-term system program and application test or the aforementioned web server and database server test, he must operate each system program or application himself. A lot of time must be wasted in performing repetitive actions, especially for manufacturing manufacturers, which is a waste of production costs, let alone the time, manpower and material resources required to test mass-produced products. In summary, the hardware components of the electronic data processing device, such as a central processing unit, memory, hard disk, or other electronic components and modules; or system programs or applications installed in the electronic data processing device As far as stability is concerned, how to provide a test method for a hardware component or a system that consumes a large amount of manufacturing costs is an urgent problem. [Summary of the Invention] In order to solve the shortcomings of the above-mentioned conventional techniques, the main purpose of the present invention is to provide an automatic test method in a window operating environment, so as to provide users with a programmable method through an electronic data processing device to set users. Test procedures to be executed in sequence, and automatically perform test tasks of hardware components or software programs of the electronic data processing device according to the procedures. According to the above-mentioned purpose, the automatic test method in the Windows operating environment of the present invention is: First, a user inputs a parameter to be set to automatically execute a test procedure through an electronic data processing device, and stores the set parameters. In a database; secondly, the user selects and executes the test procedure completed by the user through the electronic data processing device;

16878.ptd Page 5 200410065 V. Description of the invention (3) The display operation is performed on the display unit of the electronic data processing device during the execution of the test procedure; finally, the execution test result is displayed on the display unit when the test procedure is completed. On the display unit. Compared with the conventional hardware component or software program of the electronic data processing device, the test method, through the automatic test method under the window operating environment of the present invention, the user can set a test procedure in advance and perform multiple operations through unmanned operation. Complex system and program testing tasks can increase the efficiency of test execution. [Embodiment] Φ Please refer to FIG. 1. The automatic test method under the Windows operating environment of the present invention is applied to a personal computer 100, used to execute the hardware components of the personal computer 100, and installed on the personal computer. 1 0 0 system program and application test. The personal computer 100 is provided with a keyboard 102 and a mouse 104 for inputting data, information or parameters of a user to set an automatic test procedure. In addition, the personal computer 100 includes at least one device for providing the personal computer 100, which performs acquisition, decoding, and execution instructions, and transmits and receives messages from other resources through a main data transmission path in the personal computer 100. A central processing unit 1 10, a storage unit 1 12 for providing the personal computer 100 with a storage system program, an application # type or other data and data, and a interconnection with the central processing unit 1 10 to The memory for the personal computer to quickly access data 1 0 1 4 early. Since the structure of the personal computer 100 is a learner ', it will not be described in detail here. * In addition, in this embodiment, the automatic test under the window operating environment

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I 200410065 V. Description of the invention (4) The method uses an automatic test application program to execute a description language program (s C r i p t) written by a user such as a test engineer. The application must be written in any programming language, such as virtual C ++, which can provide programmers with basic and convenient VCL (Visual Component Library) components such as Buttons, Main Menu ), Etc., and the appearance and event-driven architecture of the built-in application can 'design and process system information and user-manipulated services in the most intuitive way. The automatic test application written by the description language program may provide the user to enter the parameters or other instructions of the automatic test program under the Windows operating environment, and execute the automatic test under a Windows operating system such as Microsoft Windows XP operating system. Control the application program for the personal computer i 00 to execute the test of the hardware components or software programs of the personal computer 100 according to the parameters or other instructions set by the user, and first describe it. The first test of the automatic test is to automatically test the misstored data in the material library, and the operation system is YES. The computer has passed the personal computer 100. The steps for implementing the self-method under the Windows operating environment are as follows: First, the user Enter a desire through the personal computer 100, set the parameters for the test procedure, and store the completed parameters in a file. According to the foregoing description, in this embodiment, when the user wants to execute the hardware components of the personal computer 100 automatically, such as the central processing unit 1 1 2 such as the hard disk 痞 七, stand 0 mouth 卞 丄 丄 υ or test An Chang in early Wu η 4 such as the random access memory system and the stability of the Microsoft Windows XP in the Internet Explorer 11 \ Personal Computer 100, Internet ExPl〇rer6.0;… seven AI μ Test your application automatically. Carry out the automatic test application for children. After that, Ik enters the automatic test.

200410065 V. Description of the invention (5)% The function editor window day view is used to provide the user with the option to edit the function options and the edit function or value options. Among them, the function options can be functions such as mouse, string input, waiting time, displaying messages, application execution, window size control, data-input, window enabling, and message retrieval; the editing function or The value option is used to provide the user with the option to edit or enter the relevant function or value when he wants to edit the function option or enter the relevant value after selecting the function to be edited. It is assumed that when the user wants to perform the stability test for the aforementioned IE 6.0, the first #, the user must choose to set the function option of the mouse, and enter the position where the mouse moves, which can be, for example, the X axis of the screen's day surface. Some coordinate values and some Y-axis coordinate values. After the mouse cursor is moved to the coordinate, double-click the left mouse button to click the IE icon on the desktop of the window and execute it. Next, enter the application execution function option. Set to wait for the success value to be returned when the window title appears AAA Microsoft Internet Explorer. After that, select the function option for setting the mouse, enter the coordinate value of the mouse movement, and double-click the mouse after the cursor moves to that coordinate. Key, used to open the web page, AAA "" Patent Image; then, enter the application execution function option, set to wait for the window title to appear when the Patent Image Microsoft • browser Explore r returns a successful value; In addition, enter the function option of setting the mouse, enter the coordinate value of the mouse movement, and double-click the left mouse button after the cursor is moved to the coordinate to execute the shutdown. I E app. After the setting is completed, the content of the setting may be stored in a database or library for later selection and execution.

1687S.ptd Page 8 200410065 V. Description of the invention (6) For those who need special explanation, the software and hardware equipment of different personal computers are different. In addition, the operating environment set by the user is also different. The appearance of the daytime surface of the operating environment may be different. For example, if the resolution of the display is different, the size of the daytime window and the text or icon of the opened window will be different. However, when the screen resolution is changed, the originally set mouse movement coordinate value will not be available, because the icon size is different, the position on the day and the surface will also be different. If you change the previous coordinate value, it will not be clickable. Go to the question you want to click the icon. In order to solve this problem, you can choose to set the coordinate value of the relative position, that is, set the coordinate value of the upper-left corner of the daytime surface of a window as the reference value. The resolution of the daytime surface of the window and the orientation on the screen do not affect the reference value. The setting is because the setting of the reference value is the value obtained after the daytime window is opened. After determining the reference value, when selecting the function option for setting the mouse, set the coordinate value relative to the reference value , The mouse cursor will be correctly moved to the icon or position to be clicked, and the aforementioned problem of changing the operating environment will no longer exist, providing users with considerable convenience. · In summary, the user can perform customized editing based on various functions provided by the automatic test application to edit the required automatic test program. In addition, the function can have multiple functions. The foregoing is just a list. As for the editing function and content, it can be set according to the needs of the user. The foregoing is only an embodiment. The actual situation may be more complicated. More details. Secondly, the user selects and executes the test procedure completed by the user through the personal computer 100. As mentioned before, after editing the user settings

16878.ptd Page 9 200410065 V. Description of the invention (7) After executing the function parameters or other values of the automated test procedure. The user must run the automatic test application and choose to execute the previously set content stored in the database. Then the automatic test application retrieves the setting content from the database, and executes the automatic test program according to the setting content. • Furthermore, the display operation is performed on the display unit of the personal computer 100 during the execution of the test program. According to the previous description, when the user executes the setup automatic test procedure, the mouse cursor will be displayed on the screen daytime to move to the I E icon on the desktop of the window environment and double-click to select it for execution.

• I E application; secondly, when the window is opened on the day and displays AAA

Microsoft Internet Explorer Risi performs the next procedure; after that, the mouse cursor is displayed on the screen and moved to the Patent Image icon in the slot AAA on the webpage and double-clicked to open the Patent Image; Or, when the title of the window appears Patent Image Microsoft Internet Explorer, proceed to the next procedure; at last, the mouse cursor will be displayed on the screen daytime to move to the daytime x icon of the webpage and double click to select it to close丨 Ε application. For those who need special explanation, during the process of performing the automatic test, the automatic test application will record the results of each test procedure step by step to the data. Summer: 俾 For users to query. ) Finally, when the execution of the test program is completed, the execution test result is displayed on the display unit of the computer 100. According to the previous description, after the automatic execution application completes the automatic test procedure, it is caused to display the results of the execution test on the screen, for the user's reference. In this embodiment

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Page 10 200410065 5. In the description of the invention (8), if the automatic test is successful, the message that the test was successful is displayed in a message box. In addition, the user can retrieve the process data of the automatic test stored in the database.俾 For further reference. Please refer to FIG. 2, which shows the flow of the automatic test method under the Windows operating environment of the present invention. In step S 2 01, the user inputs a parameter to be set to automatically execute the test procedure through the personal computer 1 0 0 and stores the set parameters in a database, and then executes step S 2 0 2 . In step S202, the user selects and executes the test procedure completed by the personal computer 100, and then executes step S203. In step S203, during the execution of the test procedure, the display operation is performed on the display unit of the personal computer 100, and then step S204 is performed. In step S204, the execution is completed. During the test procedure, the test results are displayed on the display unit of the personal computer 100. The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the automatic test method in the Windows operating environment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the essential technical content of the present invention. The essential technical content of the automatic test method in the Windows operating environment of the present invention is broadly defined in the scope of patent application described below. Any technical entity or method completed by others is completely the same as defined in the scope of patent application described below. Changes that are the same or equivalent are considered to be covered by this patent.

16878.ptd Page 11 200410065 Schematic description 饕 [Simplified Schematic Illustration], Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of an application architecture for displaying the system architecture of the automatic test method under the Windows operating environment of the present invention; and Section 2 The figure is a flow chart showing the flow of the automatic test method in the Windows operating environment of the present invention. 100 102 104 Xin 0 112 114 Personal computer keyboard mouse central processing unit storage unit memory unit

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Claims (1)

200410065 6. Scope of Patent Application 1. An automatic test method in a window operation environment, which provides users with an electronic data processing device to set the parameters of the application program to be automatically tested to automatically perform the test of the electronic data processing device system. The electronic data processing device includes at least a central processing unit, a storage unit, and a memory unit. The automatic test method in the operating environment of the window includes: a user inputting through the electronic data processing device a setting to be set to automatically execute a test program Parameters and set the completed parameters in a database; the user selects and executes the set test procedure through the electronic data processing device; displays operation actions on the electronic data during the execution of the test procedure The display unit of the processing device records the content of the program for performing the automatic test in the database; when the test program is completed and executed, the test result is displayed on the display unit. · 2. If the method of the first scope of patent application is applied, the electronic data processing device may be any one of a personal computer, a notebook computer, a palmtop computer, a personal digital assistant, a server, and a workstation. 3. The method according to item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the automatic test application has a window operating environment. 4. The method of item 1 in the scope of patent application, wherein the automatic test application program is for the user to set an automatic test execution procedure through a description language program. 16878.ptd Page 13 200410065 6. Application scope of patent «5. For the method of applying for the scope of patent application item 1, in which the automatic execution of electronic. Data processing device system test can be software test, hardware test and firmware Test any of them. 6. If the method of the first scope of the patent application, the automatic test application "program has a function for setting the relative position of a mouse cursor. 7. If the method of the first scope of the patent application, the database is It is built in the storage unit. 8. For the method of the first scope of the patent application, wherein the database is an associated tributary database structure. 架构 16878.ptd Page 14