International Business Machines Corporation

William C Tobin

Mark Metheny

Frank J McGrath

Kenneth Sandler

Robert Bruce Levy

Mark Frederick Victory

Steven Wesley Walton

Francis J McGrath

René D Morrow

Dennis W Elenburg

Judith Keeley

A method, system and apparatus for locating a testable object in a functional testing tool is provided. The method can include comparing object properties for a mapped testable object to object properties for each of a set of candidate testable objects organized in a hierarchy, computing an anchor object in the hierarchy, and determining a best matching candidate testable object for the mapped testable object without requiring an exact match of the object properties while constraining the comparing and determining steps with respect to the anchor object.

Locating a testable object in a functional testing tool

An automation framework for automation of modular scripts based on a method for automating a script step in a modular script is provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises preparing a software environment for automation; performing one or more user actions on a software product executing on a computer system, the actions being representative of the script step that is to be automated, while the computer system records the user actions such that the modularity of the modular script is retained and the script step is automated; and providing user input to the computer system indicating that all the user actions have been performed. The modular script may be a modular test script prescribing test script steps that test a software product. Script steps that are shared by a large number of modular scripts and that are affected by a change to a corresponding software product need to be re-automated or updated only once, leading to automatically updated modular scripts that share the updated script steps.

Automating modular manual tests including framework for test automation

A method, system and apparatus for locating a testable object in a functional testing tool is provided. The system can include a record process configured to produce both a test script and an object mapping, and a playback process configured to process the test script. An object manager can be coupled to the playback process and configured to locate among candidate objects in a GUI, a candidate object having a set of properties which partially matches another set of properties associated with a corresponding test object in the object mapping.

Fuzzy location of a testable object in a functional testing tool

The present invention is a system, method and apparatus for disambiguating two like objects in two separate application containers. In accordance with the present invention, a pointer to one of the application containers can be obtained. Subsequently, the pointer can be provided as a parameter to a function call for an object in the one of the separate application containers. Notably, the application container can include one of a content browser and a distributable application.

Disambiguating like testable objects in a functional testing tool

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William C Tobin