Edward M Gagnon

US Patent:

59500042, Sep 7, 1999

Filed:

Sep 13, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/713896

Inventors:

Timothy M. Bearse - Tiverton RI
Michael L. Lynch - Portsmouth RI
James Souza - New Bedford MA
Edward L. Gagnon - Fall River MA

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

International Classification:

G06F 945

US Classification:

395705

Abstract:

A model-based process for translating test programs from a first computer language to a second computer language includes the steps of extracting test strategy and replaceable item callouts from an existing test program in the first language, converting the extracted test strategy into an asymmetric dependency model, converting the dependency model into a model-based test strategy, extracting code segments from the existing test program, translating the extracted code segments into the second language, and merging the model-based test strategy and the translated code segments into a new test program in the second language.