Architecture for state driven testing

Abstract

An architecture for a test script editor that can be used by anybody in the development team, including non-programmer business analyst testers. Software testers can generate test scripts for validating and verifying software without navigating all possible actions or keywords. The current application state is described with one or more test objects. Each test object has one or more associated test methods and each test method can describe one or more state transitions. Only test methods accessible through test objects in the current application state are displayed to the software tester. The current state changes only if the state transition described by the test method selected by the software tester indicates a change from the current state.

1 . A system comprising:
 a memory configured to store application states, test objects, test methods, and their relationships; and   an action module configured to generate a subset of accessible test methods from a test object selection, the subset being determined by the relationship between the test methods, the test objects and the application states.