Patent ID: 8239837
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for communicating between a child test program and a parent test program in a test environment, comprising: said parent test program, in communication with a processor, said parent test program to start said child test program; a child test framework configured to catch an exception thrown by said child test program; a marshalling component configured to in communication with said child test program and said child test framework to convert exception data for said exception into a format for transmission by a communication means to a parent test framework, wherein said communication means is configured to communicate using a standard error output stream, and wherein said communication means inserts said exception data and a delimiter into said standard error output stream and said delimiter comprises an indication that exception data relates to a child test program of a determined parent test, wherein each parent test program processes exceptions only for its own child test program; and the parent test to identify a cause of failure in the child test program based upon said exception data.