Method and system for separating test cases, test scripts and test data

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and system for separating test cases, test scripts and test data. The method comprises the steps of designing and compiling the test cases according to designated rules; adding attributes to cases that require automated testing; adding designated identities to location of to-be-called external data as test data; and running the test scripts according to that the test cases and the test data. The test cases and the test data are respectively established, the test data is referenced on the test cases by identification, after the test scripts read and process thetest cases and the test scripts, the automated test process is completed, the test cases, the test scripts and the test data are separated from each other, the learning difficulty is not high, the practicability is high, software test engineers without programming skills can also use normally during scalability, and the requirements of today's software enterprises with low cost and high efficiency are met.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of software testing, and more specifically refers to a method and system for separating test cases, test scripts and test data. Background technique [0002] In software testing, to complete the automated testing process, data-driven testing techniques or keyword-driven testing techniques are usually used to separate test cases, test scripts, and test data to enhance the maintainability of test scripts. [0003] Among them, software test engineers who use data-driven testing technology will use black-box testing to design test cases, simplify all possible input data from an infinite set to a finite set, and run on the same set of test cases to find software errors. In the process of realizing automated testing, the data is separated from the test script to realize the parameterization of the test script. In addition, the expected result value of the test is stored in the data file together with the t...

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[0004] At present, the most common separation method is QTP separation, which adopts the keyword-driven concept to simplify the creation and maintenance of test cases. It allows users to directly record the operation process on the screen and automatically generate functional test or regression test cases. Professional testers You can also obtain full control over the test and object properties through the provided built-in script and debugging environment; however, it can only be used on the Windows system platform, and is only suitable for projects with the interface as the main interactive mode, which has high requirements for the system environment. The separation of test scripts and test cases has not been realized, the maintenance workload of test scripts is heavy, and the high price is not affordable for all enterprises

Another method is to implement the test case directly in the script, first decompose the test case into small execution units, and then combine and call according to the function, but this method must have a high programming ability, and most software engineering Do not have the ability of software development, or are not interested in software development, have not realized the separation of test scripts and test cases, and the maintenance workload of test scripts is heavy. Enterprises generally have two sets of test cases, manual test cases and automated test cases. If the program changes slightly, manual software test engineers have to maintain manual test cases, while automated software test engineers have to spend time maintaining test scripts in addition to maintaining automated test cases

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