Randy Grant Chapman

US Patent:

6889158, May 3, 2005

Filed:

Jun 30, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/611613

Inventors:

Kavita Kamani - Issaquah WA, US
Randy Alan Chapman - Renton WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G01M019/00
G06F011/00

US Classification:

702119, 714 37, 714 38, 717125

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and computer program products for testing software components without explicitly having to specify each test or test environment. A computer system for automated testing loads and parses and test file. The test file contains code sections that identify software components to test, locations sections that identify locations to run the software components, an expandable variation section that associates the software components with locations, and an expansion section that defines rules for expanding the expandable variation section. From the expandable variation section, the computer system creates expanded variation sections that associate particular software components with particular locations. Then, for each particular software component and locations, the computer system executes setup instructions to prepare for running the particular software component, executes the particular software component, and executes cleanup instructions. The test file may conform to one or more eXtensible Markup Language (XML) schemas.

US Patent:

7293202, Nov 6, 2007

Filed:

Jun 26, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/606497

Inventors:

Kavita Kamani - Issaquah WA, US
Randy A. Chapman - Renton WA, US
Sujay Sahni - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Remond WA

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714 38, 714 25

Abstract:

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for isolating the evaluation of actual test results against expected test results from the test module that generates the actual test results. A results evaluation sub-system receives actual test results resulting from the execution of a test in a test environment. A results retrieval sub-system receives environmental data indicating that a test was performed in the test environment. The results retrieval sub-system selects one or more expected results from a results database based on the received environmental data. The results retrieval sub-system sends the selected one or more expected results to the results evaluation sub-system. The results evaluation sub-system receives the one or more selected results. The results evaluation sub-system evaluates the actual test results against the one or more expected results to determine if the test was successful.