Method for testing computer operating or application programming interfaces
Patent 5701408 Issued on December 23, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date: 
July 10, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
July 10, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesAutomated function testing of application programs Automatic generation of test drivers Method and system for performing parametric testing of a functional programming interface Patent #: 5495571 InventorsApplicationNo. 500276 filed on 07/10/1995US Classes:714/38, Of computer software714/819Comparison of dataExaminersPrimary: Beausoliel, Robert W. Jr.Assistant: Decady, Albert Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 011/00AbstractA method for testing programming interfaces including application program interfaces and command line utilities. Each interface may be called from a loop instruction in a test instruction a number of times corresponding to a number of parameter sets which are needed to test each interface. The parameter sets are maintained in a separate data file and are retrieved for each call being made to an interface. One or more return value are included in the parameter set. The operating system generates one or more return values which are compared with the stored return value. A judgment is made based on the comparison of the stored return values and the programming interface-generated return value. When this comparison is not as expected, the return values are written to a file along with the parameter set which produced the unexpected comparison. | |
