System and method for determining requirements for testing software

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10042747-B2
Application number	US-201414539234-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 12, 2014
Priority date	Nov 12, 2014
Publication date	Aug 7, 2018
Grant date	Aug 7, 2018

Abstract

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system is provided for determining requirements for testing software. In an implementation, a method may include inspecting contents of a test case, including source code of the test case. The method may also include identifying at least one of: at least one characteristic of a test machine and at least one characteristic of a resource required to execute the test case correctly. The method may further include compiling a list of requirements for the test case to execute correctly based upon, at least in part, the at least one of the at least one characteristic of the test machine and the at least one characteristic of the resource.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including:
inspecting contents of a product-under-test, including source code of the product-under-test and source code of a test case, including property files associated with the test case and the product-under-test, wherein the test case tests the product-under-test, wherein the inspection of the source code of the test case includes inspection of each source code file included within the test case;
identifying at least one characteristic of a test machine and at least one characteristic of a resource required to execute the test case correctly based upon the inspection of the source code of the product-under-test and the source code of the test case, wherein the at least one characteristic of the resource required to execute the test case correctly includes one or more foreign language support packages and wherein the at least one characteristic of the test machine includes a location of the test machine in a limited network coverage environment including one or more of a shielded room and a cage;
compiling a list of requirements for the test case to execute correctly based upon, at least in part, the at least one characteristic of the test machine and the at least one characteristic of the resource identified based upon the inspection of the source code of the product-under-test and the source code of the test case, wherein the list of requirements for the test case to execute correctly include hardware and operating system requirements identified based upon the inspection of the source code of the product-under-test and the source code of the test case;
saving the list of requirements for the test case to execute correctly within the property files as a reference to past requirements to execute the test case correctly; and
executing the test case, based upon, at least in part, the list of requirements, on at least one test machine that includes the at least one characteristic of the test machine and at least one resource that includes the at least one characteristic of the resource required to execute the test case correctly.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 , further including:
inspecting an environment under which the product-under-test is run, including different versions of operating systems.

3. The computer program product of claim 1 , further including:
installing the product-under-test on at least one of: the at least one test machine and the at least one resource.

4. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the at least one characteristic of the resource required to execute the test case correctly includes one or more network connectivity requirements.

5. A system comprising:
at least one processor and at least one memory coupled with the at least one processor, the at least one processor configured to perform operations, including:
inspecting contents of a product-under-test, including source code of the product-under-test and source code of a test case, including property files associated with the test case and the product-under-test, wherein test case tests the product under test, wherein the inspection of the source code of the test case includes inspection of each source code file included within the test case;
identifying at least one characteristic of a test machine and at least one characteristic of a resource required to execute the test case correctly based upon the inspection of the source code of the product-under-test and the source code of the test case, wherein the at least one characteristic of the resource required to execute the test case correctly includes one or more foreign language support packages and wherein the at least one characteristic of the test machine includes a location of the test machine in a limited network coverage environment including one or more of a shielded room and a cage;
compiling a list of requirements for the test case to execute correctly based upon, at least in part, the at least one characteristic of the test machine and the at least one characteristic of the resource identified based upon the inspection of the source code of the product-under-test and the source code of the test case, wherein the list of requirements for the test case to execute correctly include hardware and operating system requirements identified based upon the inspection of the source code of the product-under-test and the source code of the test case;
saving the list of requirements for the test case to execute correctly within the property files as a reference to past requirements to execute the test case correctly; and
executing the test case, based upon, at least in part, the list of requirements, on at least one test machine that includes the at least one characteristic of the test machine and at least one resource that includes the at least one characteristic of the resource required to execute the test case correctly.

6. The system of claim 5 , further including:
inspecting an environment under which the product-under-test is run, including different versions of operating systems.

7. The system of claim 5 , further including:
installing the product-under-test on at least one of: the at least one test machine and the at least one resource.

8. The system of claim 5 , wherein the at least one characteristic of the resource required to execute the test case correctly includes one or more network connectivity requirements.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Allen Corville O
• Dingsor Andrew D
• Kozhaya Joseph N
• Price Dana L

Classifications

• G06F11/3696 Primary

  Methods or tools to render software testable · CPC title

• G06F11/3688

  for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites · CPC title

• G06F11/3684 Primary

  for test design, e.g. generating new test cases · CPC title