Patent ID: 8881105

Claim:
A method of testing software applications, comprising the steps of: providing a screen display of a software application to be tested; defining a path over the screen display to identify objects of the software application for testing; storing object information relating to said objects in a database table; repeating the path to identify additional objects for testing on the screen display; storing the path in a database; assigning a value for each object for testing; storing the object value in a database table; defining a data capture process in the form of step-by-step instructions, wherein a user creates instructions that specify the path to capture data previously entered in the software application; relating values of the captured data to stored object value; defining a test case process in the form of step-by-step instructions in which user defined object values are related to stored object values; storing said step-by-step instructions as a test case script; and assigning a unique identifier to said test case script.