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Patent No.:

US 7500082 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2009

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2004

Automating the testing of software or hardware components by dynamically creating virtual storage devices on a simulated system bus in a physical computer system

Applicant:

Arunvijay Kumar, Sammamish, WA (US);

Inventor:

Arunvijay Kumar, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:

Woodcock Washburn LLP

Primary Examiner:

Sanjiv Shah

Assistant Examiner:

Marwan Ayash

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 9/26 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06G 7/62 (2006.01); G21C 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Disclosed is a method for automating testing tasks which would otherwise have to be done manually using actual hardware by providing the capability to dynamically create many types of storage devices with different storage media, thus eliminating the need to have test machines with the actual hardware. In one embodiment a virtual storage device driver can be implemented that can be used to simulate various storage devices such as CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, removable disk drives and fixed disk drives. Manual testing tasks such as testing autoplay functionality when a CD is inserted, testing CD burning, and testing CD audio playback can then be automated.

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