| US 7,536,601 B2 | ||
| Method, system and program for identifying a test specification for testing a file element | ||
| Ernest Wing Mah, Markham (Canada); Lawrence Alan Mandel, Toronto (Canada); and Craig Salter, Hamilton (Canada) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 19, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/921,694. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0041792 A1, Feb. 23, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 11/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 714—38 [717/124] | 8 Claims |
| 1. For a file validator implemented on a data processing system, a file validator implemented method of identifying a test
specification to be used for testing validity of a file element associated with a file, the test specification being a member
in one of a set of test specifications embedded in the file validator and a set of test specifications not embedded in the
file validator, the file validator implemented method comprising the steps of:
selecting the file element;
selecting a pointer associated with the selected file element; and
using a pointer to select the test specification associated with the selected file element, the selected test specification
being selectable from one of the set of test specifications embedded in the file validator and the set of test specifications
not embedded in the file validator.
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