Method and apparatus for making and using wireless test verbs

Abstract

A computerized method and system for testing a function of an information-processing system. This includes providing an architecture having a set of test commands, the test commands including a set of one or more stimulation commands and a set of one or more result-testing commands, and defining a set of test verbs out of combinations of the test commands. This allows the test programmer to define an overall test program that uses the test verbs in writing a test program that specifies an overall function that will extensively test a system-under-test. The methods further includes executing a program that includes a plurality of test verb instructions and outputting a result of the program. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a computer-readable media that includes instructions coded thereon that when executed on a suitably programmed computer executes one or more of the above methods.

1 . A computerized method for testing, from a host computer, a function of a wireless information-processing device, the method comprising: 
 providing an architecture having a set of tests commands, the test commands including a set of one or more stimulation commands and a set of one or more result-testing commands;    defining a set of wireless test verbs from combinations of the test commands;    defining, on the host computer, a program that includes a plurality of wireless test verb instructions from the defined set of wireless test verbs; and    executing, on the host test computer, the defined program, wherein the defined program performs: 
 stimulating the wireless information-processing device;  
 receiving a result from the wireless information-processing device;  
 checking the received result against an expected result; and  
 outputting, from the host computer, information representing a result of the program.  
   
     
     
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