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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2005
Orville Jay Potter, Iv, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Robinson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Orville Jay Potter, IV, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Robinson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The integrated test framework of the present invention includes a test framework runtime that executes test scripts and that also allows a script to identify a variation tool called a 'data provider' that is responsible for providing data to the test framework runtime and controlling the iteration of the runtime through the variations. The script also identifies the type of data set from which the data provider should obtain the data from which the variations are derived and the location of the data set. Multiple variation data providers may be used in conjunction with an adapter layer that coordinates the iteration of each variation data provider and creates an aggregated variation over multiple varying parameters of different scope.