Application for automatically generating graphical flowcharts based on configurable means

An arrangement for generating a flowchart for a test program, comprising:

• at least one memory component containing a plurality of programming language configuration files and a plurality of test station configuration files, each of the programming language configuration files being specific to one programming language and including regular expressions to identify lines of program code of a test program using keywords and constructs of a programming language of the test program, each of the test station configuration files being specific to one test station and including regular expressions to identify lines of code of the test program that use application programming interfaces (APIs) to control specific instruments of a test station for which the test program is written;
• at least one user interface that enables a user to select one of the programming language configuration files stored in said at least one memory component and one of the test station configuration files stored in said at least one memory component;
• and
• a processor coupled to said user interface and said at least one memory component and that parses the test program into parsed data using the regular expressions identified in the selected one of the programming language configuration files and the regular expressions in the selected one of the test station configuration files,
• whereby the parsed data is interpreted to enable generation of the flowchart.

A computer program embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media and configured to:

• enable a user to select one of a plurality of programming language configuration files stored in at least one memory component, based on a programming language of a test program, each of the programming language configuration files being specific to one programming language and including regular expressions to identify lines of program code of a test program using keywords and constructs of the programming language of the test program;
• enable the user to select one of a plurality of test station configuration files stored in at least one memory component, based on a test station for which the test program is written, each of the test station configuration files being specific to one test station and including regular expressions to identify lines of code of the test program that use application programming interfaces (APIs) to control specific instruments of the test station;
• and
• parse the test program into parsed data using the regular expressions identified in the selected one of the programming language configuration files and the regular expressions in the selected one of test station configuration files,
• whereby the parsed data is stored and subsequently interpreted to enable generation of a flowchart.