3033 results about "Software testing" patented technology

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for testing and evaluating software in the network cloud. A developer or other operator may wish to debug, modify, or update a set of test software based on testing of that software. The developer can instantiate a set of virtual servers or other test beds in the cloud, and install the subject software to the virtual test beds. A test management module can monitor the execution of the set of test software on the set of virtual test beds, to detect execution faults, measure processing performance, stress-test the software with predetermined data inputs, and manage other aspects of software life cycle development. The test management module can provide or access a set of application programming interfaces to a set of software tools external to the cloud, so that the set of test software can be tested and optimized using external programming development tools.

A system and method for analyzing a computer program includes performing a static analysis on a program to determine property correctness. Test cases are generated and conducted to provide test output data. Hypotheses about aspects of execution of the program are produced to classify paths for test cases to determine whether the test cases have been encountered or otherwise. In accordance with the hypothesis, new test cases are generated to cause the program to exercise behavior which is outside of the encountered test cases.

A system for automatic generation of test programs employs test generation foci linked to a finite state machine behavioral model of a software application under test to produce abstract test suites that are executed by an execution engine. The foci include directive expressions that tag coverage variables of the behavioral model. The execution engine operates until the tagged coverage variables have assumed all their possible values. Both the behavioral models and the foci are archivable and can be retrieved and reused independently.

A method and computer system for web-interface mediated software testing is disclosed. The computer system includes an application server that provides a web interface for organizing and managing test cases by organizing test cases by the Requirements and Sub-Requirements of a Project. Users can schedule test cases to run on one or more host machines that have loaded thereon a copy of the software being tested, or some part thereof, and an automation tool. The host machine derives test scripts by parsing automation tool recognized syntax from the steps and procedures encoded in the test case files and downloads the appropriate automation tool GUI environment file and running the test script using the automation tool against the software application, or some part thereof, being tested. The progress of each test case or test step can be monitored remotely via the web interface without the need for direct interaction with a host machine. A test case can be generated by an Integrated Test Case Authoring Tool which provides a GUI that translates user keystrokes and mouse actions into strings recognized by standard automation tools.

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for automated distributed testing of software. A testing service may utilize a distributed architecture that provides a standardized framework for writing tests, scheduling the tests, and gathering and reporting results of the tests. Multiple distributed labs are integrated into the testing service and their environments can be centrally managed by the testing service. The testing service permits the scheduling and performance of tests across multiple machines within a test lab, or tests that span across multiple test labs. Any of the machines in the test labs may be selected based on variety of criteria. The testing service may then automatically locate the appropriate machines that match or satisfy the criteria and schedule the tests when the machines are available. The testing service may also automatically create and set up a desired test environment according to the desired specifications for the test.

In general, in one aspect, a method for distributed testing includes providing a testing framework for the distributed testing of software to a number of clients at least some of which have a different operating environment than other of the clients, transmitting to each testing framework a component for testing, receiving client environment data and testing results from each testing framework, storing the testing results and environment data in a database; and reporting the results of running the tests on the clients.

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to software test automation and provide a method, system and apparatus for a reusable software testing framework. In one embodiment of the invention, an automated application test data processing system can include a reusable test automation framework. The system further can include a test task generator and a scenario generator coupled to one another and to the framework. In this regard, the test task generator can be configured to generate uniform logic for performing testing tasks, while the scenario generator can be configured to arrange testing tasks for a complete test scenario. Finally, a collaborative testing environment can be provided through which multiple users can interact with the scenario generator and test task generator to produce test cases of different test scenarios

This disclosure describes systems and methods for testing a medical device. The disclosure describes a novel approach determining if the ventilator system is functioning properly without having to connect the medical device to a patient.

The invention provides a method for automatically generating software test cases. The method comprises the following steps of: A. reading to-be-tested software, carrying out lexical analysis, syntax analysis and semantic analysis on a source program of the to-be-tested software and generating an abstract syntax tree and a control flow graph of the to-be-tested software; B. preprocessing the source program of the to-be-tested software by traversing the generated abstract syntax tree, identifying initial input-output variables and compressing the space of a definition domain of the initial input variables; and C. generating a path of program elements of the current to-be-tested software by traversing the control flow graph, carrying out assignment operation, implication operation and backtracking operation on the variables in the path, and generating the test cases. The invention also provides a system for automatically generating software test cases. The method and the system for automatically generating the software test cases can accurately and automatically generate the test cases according to the given program elements of the to-be-tested software and verify the generated test cases, thereby improving the accuracy, efficiency and automation degree of the test cases.

A system and method provide testing of software in different configurations automatically. Templates may be provided for developers to create an application or for generating tests. One or more tests may be generated for testing the application. The testing scope may range between a plurality of configurations for the application in one or more environments. Tests may include test blocks corresponding to parts of the application for testing according to the execution order of the parts of the application. Tests may change input values, modules in the application, configuration settings, data types, communication parameters, and/or other application elements for testing. Such changes may be generated automatically during testing. Test code may be inserted in the application for testing. Application generation and compilation may be automated during testing. Deployment and undeployment of applications may also be automated for testing.

The invention discloses a testing method, a testing device and a testing system of application software on a mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps of receiving an installation package of application software to be tested, which is uploaded by a client end, and an identification of a target mobile terminal to be tested; sending the installation package to the target mobile terminal and instructing the target mobile terminal to install the application software through the installation package; instructing the target mobile terminal to start the application software and traversing to trigger all controls in the application software and obtaining a screenshot of a display interface when the controls are triggered to obtain the display interface every time; returning a picture intercepted on the target mobile terminal to the client end. By using the method, the application software on the mobile terminal can be efficiently tested.

A system and method for automatically managing a distributed software test execution, management and reporting system that includes a network of test computers for executing a plurality of test jobs and at least one client computer for controlling the test computers is disclosed. The method and system include providing the test computers with a service program for automatically registering availability of the computer and the attributes of the computer with the client computer. The execution requirements of each test job are compared with the attributes associated with the available computers, and the test jobs are dispatched to the computers having matching attributes. The method and system further include providing the service programs with a heartbeat function such that the service programs transmit signals at predefined intervals over the network to indicate activity of each test job running on the corresponding computer. The client computer monitors the signals from the service programs and determines that a failure has occurred for a particular test job when the corresponding signal is undetected. The client then automatically notifies the user when a failure has been detected.

A secure memory card with encryption capabilities comprises various life cycle states that allow for testing of the hardware and software of the card in certain of the states. The testing mechanisms are disabled in certain other of the states thus closing potential back doors to secure data and cryptographic keys. Controlled availability and generation of the keys required for encryption and decryption of data is such that even if back doors are accessed that previously encrypted data is impossible to decrypt and thus worthless even if a back door is found and maliciously pried open.

A system that provides easy testing of software objects and reduces the burden on a program developer for maintaining a test system is presented. The system accepts as an input objects and automatically creates test drivers for these objects. The test objects are provided to a test bed comprising an application server where the objects are tested by application of the test drivers.

In a preferred embodiment, the test bed comprises a collection of application servers. An application service provider provides the system test driver and the test bed. Access to the test system is provided by passing a representing of the object under test to the application service provided through a network interface. The application service provider provides test services on a fee for service basis.

A system and a method are provided to quantitatively analyze the risk for a risk-based testing of software having at least one module. The risk-based testing comprises obtaining behavior of each module to a set of test cases. The method to quantitatively analyze the risk comprises assigning a confidence weight to each test case for each module based on its test history, assigning a confidence weight to each of a plurality of software specific parameters for each module, calculating a raw confidence level for each module based on the assigned confidence weights to the test cases, and calculating a confidence quotient for each module as a weighted sum of the raw confidence level for each module and the confidence weight for each software specific parameter. The confidence quotient indicates the risk of defects in each module. The module with the smallest confidence quotient is assigned the highest priority during the testing of the software.

There is provided a method for the automated testing of software, which has a graphic user interface. With at least one graphic editor, at least the dynamic and the semantic behavior of the user interface of the software is specified. Test cases are generated by a test case generator software using the thus specified behavior of the user interface, which are then executed by a software for automatic running test running either immediately or in a later step.

The invention discloses a software testing automation framework (STAF)-based fault injection automation testing platform and an STAF-based fault injection automation testing method for a high-end fault-tolerant computer, and relates to a fault injection technology. The invention provides a fault injection automation testing platform and a fault injection automation testing method, which are applicable for the high-end fault-tolerant computer. The method is implemented by adopting an embedded software distributed testing environment. An application layer in software is an application program operated in general control end service, manages data and information in an automation testing process by utilizing a relational database and a file system, and provides a friendly graphic interface; a proxy layer is operated between the application layer and a realization layer to realize task proxy, and takes charge of executing an automation testing task submitted by a user from the interface; and the realization layer packages the communication among an automation testing control server and testing proxies of various platforms, and executes specific operations of various automation tests. The STAF-based fault injection automation testing platform is a distributed and automatic fault injection platform which is constructed on the basis of an open source automation testing tool STAF, and can integrate various software fault injection tools.

The invention relates to a system and a method for testing computer software, in particular to a system and a method for on-computer test of mobile application software. The system comprises a server side and a client side, wherein the server side creates and transfers a test-case set to a test-set management unit for running the test set and establishes communication connection with a communication service unit to wait for a client request, and the client side downloads a test packet and executes test. The device supports the on-computer test in actual hardware environment and Java running environment of mobile phones so as to obtain realer running states. The device can automatically generate test cases including test drivers or pile-calling codes and the like, and can improve test coverage rate and error detecting capability.

This invention relates to methods and a system for supporting software. In one embodiment, a method for providing an updated version of a software program includes receiving an indication of a fault in a software program, distributing the faulty software program to a distributed community of programmers, receiving updated versions of the faulty software program from a subset of the distributed community of programmers, and determining a preferred updated software program from the received updated versions of the software program. In another embodiment, a system for providing an updated version of a software program includes a communication server for communicating faulty software programs and updates of the programs to and from the distributed community of programmers, a component storage module for storing the faulty software program, and a software testing module for determining a preferred updated version of the faulty software program.