Patent ID: 6286131
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing steps within a computer system comprising:initiating the execution of a computer-executable application, which generates an output containing information intended for display to a user of the application in response to an input;providing as the input to the computer-executable application a test object collected from a database, wherein the test object includes one or more intentional errors;creating an actual result object from the output generated by the computer-executable application in response to the input, the actual result object having one or more machine-readable tags associated with the errors in the test object;mapping the one or more tags to human-readable labels derived from an expected result object;performing a comparison between the actual result object and an object selected from a group consisting of the expected result object and a previously generated actual result object; andstoring the results of the comparison in the database as a comparison result object that includes the one or more machine readable tags that are dynamically mappable to the human readable labels such that the comparison result object is available to the user as an aide in debugging the computer-executable application.