Patent ID: 7702958
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising the steps of: a.) recording a number of statements from a user, wherein the statements comprise automated regression test harness commands; b.) passing the statements to an external auto-executing tool for testing a program with the statements; c.) executing the statement under control of the auto-executing tool so as to perform a test of the statement; d.) capturing and displaying results of the test; e.) filtering unwanted portions of the results of the test to create a filtered output wherein filtering unwanted portions of the results comprises removing portions of the results of the test before the filtered results are stored to a file wherein filtering unwanted portions of the results further comprises a default filter configured to filter results before the filtered output is stored to a file wherein filtering results comprises performing at least one of suppressing, altering and converting results wherein the default filter filters a first set of characters as applied to the results, and further comprising an override filter that filters a second set of characters, wherein the override filter is used to filter the results for one command, and subsequent results are filtered using the default filter; f.) selecting, from the statements, a statement to be saved in a test harness file as an automated regression test harness command; g.) saving the selected statement in a test harness file h.) saving the filtered output as a benchmark file.