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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1996
Kyle David Herbig, Lafayette, CO (US);
Mark Ambrose McKelvey, Rochester, MN (US);
Thomas Joseph Warne, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An object oriented framework for diagnostic testing operates upon a user-defined diagnostic script to perform the desired tests. Certain core functions are provided by the framework, which interact with extensible functions. This separation of core and extensible functions allows the separation of the diagnostic application from the attributes of the test. A user may thus define extensible functions that allow the framework to test specific hardware and/or software without the framework having the knowledge of the specific tests being performed, or the results of those tests.