Software automatic testing instrument and method of embedded equipment

Abstract

The invention discloses an automatic test tool and method for software of embedding apparatus. The tool comprises a main program module used for establishing test case scripts, constituting test plan, managing test case scripts and test plan; a script analytic module used for analyzing or running scripts, managing, concurrent and synchro controlling thread when multiple unit runs; an instruction analytic module used for packaging instructions as binary data packets and transmitting to a serial port management module, analyzing received binary data packets; a serial port management module used for maintaining serial port source, transmitting binary data packets to embedded devices and transmitting the binary data packets received from the embedded device to the instruction analytic module. The invention tests embedded software with high efficiency and high coverage, provides support for multiple platform and type embedded devices.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of software testing of computers and embedded devices, in particular to automated testing tools and methods for embedded terminal software such as mobile phones and fixed platforms. Background technique [0002] Currently, test managers and engineers are using automated test systems in various application areas in order to ensure the quality and reliability of products delivered to customers. They use automated test systems to perform simple "pass" or "fail" tests, or through it to perform a full suite of product characteristic tests. Due to the rising cost of detecting product defects late in the design cycle, automated test systems are rapidly becoming an important part of the product development process. The automated test system significantly increases the throughput and flexibility of the test system while reducing the overall cost. [0003] According to statistics, there are currently more than 300 domestic mo...

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[0004] At present, there are very powerful and general-purpose automatic testing tools on the market, such as the typical Winrunner, Robot, Loadrunner, etc., but these tools are based on the PC platform and are usually not compatible with embedded systems such as mobile phones.

Although platform suppliers test the bottom layers of lay1, lay2, and lay3 automatically by their own developed test tools, these tools are not provided to domestic developers.

[0005] In China, there are usually no automated testing tools to support the functional testing of mobile phones. Most of the complicated functional testing can only be done manually by test engineers through the guidance of textual test cases.

In the mobile phone function test, many repetitive tasks are often encountered, such as sending several SMS or MMS to verify the success rate and stability of sending and receiving, making multiple consecutive calls, adding and deleting files to the file system multiple times, and multiple The conflict test and limit test under the condition of multi-task and multi-process are almost all performed manually by the test engineer, which makes it easy for people to feel the simple and repeated button operation; and the mobile phone has many functions, and the workload of the regression test is heavy. If a single test engineer executes all test case scripts by manually pressing keys, it will take a few hours or a few days at most. test omission

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