Test program generator using key enumeration and string replacement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9213613-B2
Application number	US-201213678760-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 16, 2012
Priority date	Nov 16, 2012
Publication date	Dec 15, 2015
Grant date	Dec 15, 2015

Abstract

A system and method are provided for test program generation using key enumeration and string replacement. A system includes a test program generator and a tester. The tester receives a test program from the test program generator and tests one or more products according to the test program. The test program generator receives a seed file from a seed file database and a configuration file from a configuration file database. The test program generator iterates over enumeration keys in the configuration file and, for each key, apply to the seed file one or more rules in the configuration file keyed to the enumeration key. Applying a rule includes replacing in the seed file one or more occurrences of a predicate value of the rule with a transformation value of the rule. The test program generator also outputs to the tester the modified first seed file as the test program.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for generating a test program, the method comprising:
receiving a first seed file and a first configuration file;
iterating over one or more first enumeration keys in the first configuration file;
for each of the one or more first enumeration keys, applying to the first seed file a first rule in the first configuration file keyed to the one or more first enumeration keys, where applying the first rule comprises replacing in the first seed file o…

Assignees

• Nvidia Corp

Inventors

• Trisjono Frederick
• Ningampally Sravanthi

Classifications

• G06F11/2252 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/3684 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic