Method And Apparatus To Recognize And Correlate Screens

A method comprising:

• retrieving, by a microprocessor, text screen description data for a terminal-based application, wherein the text screen description data comprises a screen description and one or more text field descriptions associated with the screen description, wherein the one or more text field descriptions are associated with one or more text fields, and wherein the text screen description data is based on Basic Mapping Support (BMS) mappings;
• capturing, by the microprocessor, image data of a screen for the terminal-based application;
• correlating, by the microprocessor, the captured image data of the screen of the terminal-based application to the text screen description data for the terminal-based application to identify the one or text fields;
• and
• automatically generating, by the microprocessor, a test script to test the one or more text fields based on the correlation.

A non-transient computer readable medium having stored thereon

• instructions that cause a microprocessor to execute a method, the method comprising instructions to:
• retrieve text screen description data for a terminal-based application, wherein the text screen description data comprises a screen description and one or more text field descriptions associated with the screen description, wherein the one or more text field descriptions are associated with one or more text fields, and wherein the text screen description data is based on Basic Mapping Support (BMS) mappings;
• capture image data of a screen for the terminal-based application;
• correlate the captured image data of the screen of the terminal-based application to the text screen description data for the terminal-based application to identify the one or text fields;
• and
• automatically generate a test script to test the one or more text fields based on the correlation.