Integrating software-tests with software development environments or tools that can assist software-testing

摘要

A dynamic-bridge connects a collection of tests (e.g., proprietary tests) to a testing-framework and effectively allows the collection of tests to interface with the testing-framework, thereby allowing the development environment and tools that support the testing-framework to also support the collection of tests. The dynamic-bridge provides a dynamic test wrapper which can be dynamically constructed for a test and present it as a test which conforms to or is compatible with the testing-framework and executed within the testing-framework. Test results are reported in a form that is expected or acceptable by the framework. In effect, the dynamic test wrapper simulates executing the test in the testing framework. As a result, tools which have been integrated with the testing-framework can be used to support tests which may originally not conform or be compatible with the testing-framework.