US 9,959,196 B2Granted

Unification of descriptive programming and object repository

AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

InventorPeng Wu

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Abstract

A computer device may include logic configured to provide a centralized library for descriptive programming and other types of object descriptions to a testing script engine. The descriptive programming library may store test object descriptions for test objects associated with an application under testing. The logic may be further configured to provide a unification layer over all the object description types and to provide inheritance among the objects at the unification layer. The logic may be further configured to store a test object description, associated with a test object, in the descriptive programming library; identify a reference to the test object in a descriptive programming statement associated with the testing script engine; access the stored test object description in the descriptive programming library based on the identified reference to the test object; and identify an application object, associated with the application under testing, based on the stored test object description.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

providing, by a computer device, a descriptive programming library to a testing script engine, wherein the descriptive programming library stores test object descriptions for test objects associated with an application under testing;
providing, by the computer device, a unified user interface layer to the testing script engine, wherein the unified user interface layer enables a script to reference the test object descriptions stored in the descriptive programming library and to reference test object descriptions stored in an object repository, wherein the test object descriptions stored in the object repository are accessible without having to specify test object properties and the test object descriptions stored in the descriptive programming library are accessible using dynamic property values;
storing, by the computer device, a test object description, associated with a test object, in the descriptive programming library;
identifying, by the computer device, a reference to the test object in a descriptive programming statement associated with the testing script engine using the unified user interface layer;
accessing, by the computer device, the stored test object description in the descriptive programming library based on the identified reference to the test object;
identifying, by the computer device, an application object, associated with the application under testing, based on the stored test object description;
performing, by the computer device, a specified action on the identified application object using the testing script engine;
and
reporting, by the computer device, a result associated with the specified action to a user associated with the application under testing.

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A computer device comprising:

logic configured to:
provide a descriptive programming library to a testing script engine, wherein the descriptive programming library stores test object descriptions for test objects associated with an application under testing;
provide a unified user interface layer to the testing script engine, wherein the unified user interface layer enables a script to reference the test object descriptions stored in the descriptive programming library and to reference test object descriptions stored in an object repository, wherein the test object descriptions stored in the object repository are accessible without having to specify test object properties and the test object descriptions stored in the descriptive programming library are accessible using dynamic property values;
store a test object description, associated with a test object, in the descriptive programming library;
identify a reference to the test object in a descriptive programming statement associated with the testing script engine using the unified user interface layer;
access the stored test object description in the descriptive programming library based on the identified reference to the test object;
identify an application object, associated with the application under testing, based on the stored test object description;
perform a specified action on the identified application object using the testing script engine;
and
report a result associated with the specified action to a user associated with the application under testing.

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A non-transitory computer-readable memory device, storing instructions executable by a processor, the non-transitory computer-readable memory device comprising:

one or more instructions to provide a descriptive programming library to a testing script engine, wherein the descriptive programming library stores test object descriptions for test objects associated with an application under testing;
one or more instructions to provide a unified user interface layer to the testing script engine, wherein the unified user interface layer enables a script to reference the test object descriptions stored in the descriptive programming library and to reference test object descriptions stored in an object repository, wherein the test object descriptions stored in the object repository are accessible without having to specify test object properties and the test object descriptions stored in the descriptive programming library are accessible using dynamic property values;
one or more instructions to provide a unified user interface layer to the testing script engine, wherein the unified user interface layer enables a script to reference the test object descriptions stored in the descriptive programming library and to reference test object descriptions stored in an object repository;
one or more instructions to store a unified user interface layer test object, generated via the unified user interface layer, in the descriptive programming library;
one or more instructions to identify a reference to the unified user interface layer test object in a descriptive programming statement associated with the testing script engine using the unified user interface layer;
one or more instructions to access the stored unified user interface layer test object in the descriptive programming library based on the identified reference to the unified user interface layer test object;
one or more instructions to identify an application object, associated with the application under testing, based on the stored unified user interface layer test object;
one or more instructions to perform a specified action on the identified application object using the testing script engine;
and
one or more instructions to report a result associated with the specified action to a user associated with the application under testing.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.