Patent ID: 8930758
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An arrangement for providing integrated, model-based testing of industrial systems, the arrangement comprising: a model-based test design module, responsive to manual inputs in the form of models, for automatically creating test scripts, configuration information and deployment information associated with a specific industrial system being evaluated; a test execution engine, responsive to the test scripts created by the model-based test design module to generate commands for controlling various hardware and software components of the specific industrial system; and an automated test infrastructure (ATI) component coupled to the specific industrial system and responsive to the commands generated by the test execution engine for testing and evaluating the specific industrial system, the automated test infrastructure including a keyword processor, responsive to the commands, for implementing the testing of the specific industrial system and an ATI launcher, responsive to the deployment information created by the model-based test design module, for defining arrangements of components forming the specific industrial system to be tested; wherein the model-based test design module includes a test script generator component for creating test scripts applied as an input to the test execution engine, and a configuration and deployment generator for creating configuration and deploying information inputs to the ATI component.