Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kaushik Pushpavanam

Jeffrey P Snover

James W Truher

Daryl W Wray

Subramanian Viswanathan

Ujjwal Sarin

The present mechanism obtains constraints within an interactive environment, associates these constraints with constructs, and then applies these constraints to the constructs when encountering the constructs. The constraints may be saved in metadata associated with the respective construct. The constraints may specify a data type for the construct, a predicate directive, a documentation directive, a parsing directive, a data generation directive, a data validation directive, or an object processing and encoding directive. The constraints are extendable to support other directives. The mechanism allows interactive users to easily specify constraints interactively.

Mechanism for obtaining and applying constraints to constructs within an interactive environment

The present invention is directed at a reflection-based shell that provides reflection-based processing of input parameters for a command. The reflection-based processing includes parsing, data generation, data validation, object encoding, object processing, documentation, and the like. The reflection-based shell provides a mechanism for specifying a grammar for the input parameters using a class. The method includes receiving a parsable stream that includes a command and at least one parameter. Retrieving definitional information that describes an expected parameter for the command. Using the definitional information to create an object for storing the at least one parameter in a format in accordance with the description of the expected parameters. Passing the object to the command. The object not having a method invocable by the command.

Reflection-based processing of input parameters for commands

The present invention is directed at a reflection-based shell that provides reflection-based processing of input parameters for a command. The reflection-based processing includes parsing, data generation, data validation, object encoding, object processing, documentation, and the like. The reflection-based shell provides a mechanism for specifying a grammar for the input parameters using a class. The method includes receiving a parsable stream that includes a command and at least one parameter. Retrieving definitional information that describes an expected parameter for the command. Using the definitional information to create an object for storing the at least one parameter in a format in accordance with the description of the expected parameters. Passing the object to the command.

Described herein are one or more implementations for facilitation of computer software testing. One or more implementations, described herein, determine logical type of one or more test input-parameters based upon metadata placed on a function under test (FUT) of software. Using that determined logical type, an implementation generates data values. In some instances, those generated values are values selected from a repository of data values with associated logical types. The selection is based upon the determined logical type. After generating data values for testing the FUT, an implementation supplies the generated data values as input to the FUT.

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