Patent ID: 8510714
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for implementing integrated documentation and functional application testing comprises: applying an integrated test engine to drive both functional application testing and documentation testing for an application; retrieving documentation instructions and documentation embedded metadata from documentation for the application; said documentation instructions and documentation embedded metadata representing how to automate each step in the documentation testing and expected results, mapping documentation embedded metadata to functional test engine metadata; using said documentation instructions to order functional test engine metadata; forming a list of automated test instructions based upon the functional test engine metadata and ordering the automated test instructions based upon documentation instruction order; wherein forming a list of automated test instructions based upon the functional test engine metadata includes translating the functional test engine metadata into a runable test instruction; and running a series of tests defined by the list of automated test instructions against the application to functionally test both the application and the documentation.