Generating test cases for covering enterprise rules and predicates

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8949795-B2
Application number	US-201213592754-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 23, 2012
Priority date	Aug 23, 2012
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

Techniques, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for generating test cases for covering enterprise rules and predicates. A method includes obtaining a web application and a specification of at least one enterprise rule, constructing a link graph that captures at least one navigation path in the web application, and performing a traversal of the web application guided by the link graph to generate an executable test case that drives the web application along one of the at least one navigation paths in which the at least one enterprise rule is covered to determine the web application's conformance to the at least one enterprise rule, wherein the executable test case is a sequence of one or more test steps, each test step representing an action to be performed on the web application and/or a verification of the application state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for automated test case generation for a web application, the method comprising:
obtaining a web application and a specification of at least one enterprise rule comprising (i) an antecedent, (ii) a consequent, and (iii) a set of one or more invariant conditions, wherein:
the antecedent represents a discrete state of the web application that is observable at a user interface level at a given point of execution of the web application;
the consequen…

Assignees

• Chandra Satish
• Thummalapenta Suresh
• Sinha Nishant
• Sinha Saurabh
• Vaishampayan Anand
• Lakshmi Vasanta K
• IBM

Inventors

• Chandra Satish
• Thummalapenta Suresh
• Sinha Nishant
• Sinha Saurabh
• Vaishampayan Anand
• Lakshmi Vasanta K

Classifications

• G06F11/3676 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/3684

  Physics · mapped topic