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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2001
Johan Gustavsson, Huddinge, SE;
Stefan Johansson, Stockholm, SE;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and a test tool are provided for verifying the functionality of a software based unit which is provided with an interface for its external communication. Pre-recorded data is used for the reproduction of a test case and for the verification of a unit subject to the test case. The pre-recorded data includes pre-recorded input data and pre-recorded output data The pre-recorded input data is applied to an interface of the unit and the pre-recorded output data is compared with the data transmitted from the unit in response to the applied pre-recorded input data. If the data transmitted from the unit is in correspondence with the pre-recorded output data, the functionality of the unit in accordance with the specific test case has been verified.