US 11,599,434 B2Granted

System for recommending tests for mobile communication devices maintenance release certification

AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.

InventorsXiao Zhang, Wei Huang, Pei Zheng, Johnderic V. Sicat

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Abstract

Techniques for automatically selecting device tests for testing devices configured for operation in wireless communication networks, based upon maintenance releases (MRs) received from original equipment manufacturers. When an MR with changes for a device is received, the MR may be analyzed in order to determine what the changes pertain to with respect to the device. The changes may be clustered with respect to requirements for the changes and a knowledge base may be consulted by a recommendation engine in order to determine candidate tests for testing the MR. The candidate tests may be based upon previous tests, failed tests and, relevant tests. Based at least in part on the identified previous tests, failed tests and relevant tests, one or more tests may be selected for testing devices with respect to the newly received MR.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more non-transitory storage media comprising instructions stored thereon, the instructions being executable by the one or more processors to cause the processors to perform actions comprising:
based at least in part on receiving a maintenance release from an original equipment manufacturer for a device configured for operation in a wireless communication network:
searching a plurality of candidate tests stored in a test database;
identifying one or more previous tests from the plurality of candidate tests, the one or more previous tests having been previously conducted on the device in response to one or more previous maintenance releases from the original equipment manufacturer for the device;
identifying one or more failed tests from the plurality of candidate tests, the one or more failed tests having been previously conducted on the device;
identifying one or more relevant tests from the plurality of candidate tests;
based at least in part on (i) the one or more previous tests, (ii) the one or more failed tests, and (iii) the one or more relevant tests, selecting a plurality of recommended tests of the plurality of tests;
determining a total time of the plurality of recommended tests exceeds a threshold time;
in response to determining the total time of the plurality of recommended tests exceeds the threshold time:
prioritizing the plurality of recommended tests;
and
determining a plurality of prioritized tests to be performed by eliminating one or more lowest priority tests from the plurality of recommended tests;
and
performing, on the device, the plurality of prioritized tests to be performed.

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A computer-implemented method based at least in part on receiving a maintenance release from an original equipment manufacturer for a device configured for operation in a wireless communication network, the method comprising:

searching a plurality of candidate tests stored in a test database;
identifying one or more previous tests from the plurality of candidate tests, the one or more previous tests having been previously conducted on the device in response to one or more previous maintenance releases from the original equipment manufacturer for the device;
identifying one or more failed tests from the plurality of candidate tests, wherein the one or more failed tests are identified based fault detection percentages, the one or more failed tests having higher fault detection percentages than other tests of the plurality of candidate tests;
identifying one or more relevant tests from the plurality of candidate tests;
based at least in part on (i) the one or more previous tests, (ii) the one or more failed tests, and (iii) the one or more relevant tests, selecting a plurality of recommended tests from the plurality of candidate tests;
determining a total time of the plurality of recommended tests exceeds a threshold time;
in response to determining the total time of the plurality of recommended tests exceeds the threshold time:
prioritizing the plurality of recommended tests;
and
determining a plurality of prioritized tests to be performed by eliminating one or more lowest priority tests from the plurality of recommended tests;
and
performing plurality of prioritized tests to be performed on the device.

9 more elements

One or more non-transitory storage media comprising instructions stored thereon, the instructions being executable by one or more processors to cause the processors to perform actions comprising:

based at least in part on receiving a maintenance release from an original equipment manufacturer for a device configured for operation in a wireless communication network:
searching a plurality of candidate tests stored in a test database;
identifying one or more previous tests from the plurality of candidate tests based on requirements derived from the maintenance release and on the test database, the one or more previous tests having been previously conducted on the device in response to one or more previous maintenance releases from the original equipment manufacturer for the device;
identifying one or more failed tests from the plurality of candidate tests, the one or more failed tests having been previously conducted on the device, wherein the identifying of the one or more failed tests is based upon changes to the previous maintenance releases from the original equipment manufacturer for the device, the changes being similar to changes in the maintenance release;
identifying one or more relevant tests from the plurality of candidate tests based on features and change key words parsed from the maintenance release;
based at least in part on (i) the one or more previous tests, (ii) the one or more failed tests, and (iii) the one or more relevant tests, selecting a plurality of tests to be performed;
and
performing the plurality of tests to be performed on the device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/125,602Filed 17 Dec 2020
Published: US 2022/0197765 A123 Jun 2022
Granted: 7 Mar 2023
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Classification6 codes

G06F 11/2252
Detection or location of defective computer hardware by testing during standby operation or during idle time, e.g. start-up testing: using fault…
G06F 11/2273
Detection or location of defective computer hardware by testing during standby operation or during idle time, e.g. start-up testing: test methods
G06F 11/2294
Detection or location of defective computer hardware by testing during standby operation or during idle time, e.g. start-up testing: by remote test
G06F 11/263
Functional testing: generation of test inputs, e.g. test vectors, patterns or sequences ; with adaptation of the tested hardware for testability…