Granted Patent B2

US 12,619,508 · App. 18/828,808 · Granted May 5, 2026

Inventors: Jie Yuan (Tianjin, CN); Xin Chen (Tianjin, CN)

Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.

G06F11/2221

Abstract

Claims (68)

1 . A method of testing an expansion card, applied in an electronic device; the electronic device comprises a storage medium and a processor; the storage medium stores computer programs; and the processor executes the computer programs to implement following processes:

acquiring contents of instructions of a controller corresponding to the expansion card;

acquiring contents of expected data corresponding to the contents of the instructions in response to the expansion card receiving the contents of instructions;

configuring at least one configuration file based on the contents of instructions and the contents of expected data; wherein the controller is a baseboard management controller;

generating testing instructions based on the at least one configuration file;

sending the testing instructions to the expansion card;

receiving returned data from firmware of the expansion card, which is generated while executing the testing instructions;

determining whether the electronic device communicates with the expansion card successfully based on the returned data;

parsing the returned data based on receiving parameters of the at least one configuration file; and

generating a log file based on the parsed returned data in response to the returned data been parsed successfully;

wherein determining whether the electronic device communicates with the expansion card successfully based on the returned data comprises:

reading contents of a state flag in the log file, wherein

in a case that the contents of the state flag indicate that the electronic device communicates with the expansion card successfully, determining the electronic device is communicating with the expansion card; and

in case that the contents of the state flag indicate that the electronic device fails to communicate with the expansion card, triggering an abnormal warning.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the testing instructions based on the at least one configuration file comprises:

reading sending parameters in the at least one configuration file; and

filling the sending parameters in a specified format and generating the testing instructions.

3 . The method of claim 1 , after parsing the returned data based on the receiving parameters of the at least one configuration file, the method further comprising:

in a case that the returned data is parsed unsuccessfully, triggering the abnormal warning.

4 . The method of claim 1 , after generating the testing instructions based on the at least one configuration file, the method further comprising:

determining whether a number of the testing instructions is larger than or equal to a specified number, wherein

in a case that the number of the testing instructions is less than the specified number, sending the testing instructions to the expansion card; and

in a case that the number of the testing instructions is larger than or equal to the specified number, stopping testing.

5 . The method of claim 1 , before configuring the at least one configuration file based on the contents of the instructions, and contents of expected data, the method further comprising:

obtaining a device address of the expansion card and a channel address;

wherein the contents of the instructions is acquired based on the device address of the expansion card and the channel address.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a transmission manner of the testing instructions from the electronic device to the expansion card and the returned data from the expansion card to the electronic device comprises an out-of-band manner, or an in-band manner.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the acquired number of the testing instructions is related to the number of at least one configuration file, each testing instruction is generated based on one configuration file.

8 . An electronic device comprises:

a processor, configured to execute computer programs;

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, configured to store the computer programs; the computer programs are executed by the processor to implement following instructions:

acquiring contents of instructions of a controller corresponding to an expansion card;

acquiring contents of expected data corresponding to the contents of the instructions in response to the expansion card receiving the contents of instructions;

configuring at least one configuration file based on the contents of instructions of a controller and contents of expected data; wherein the controller is a baseboard management controller;

generating testing instructions based on the at least one configuration file;

sending the testing instructions to the expansion card;

receiving returned data from firmware of the expansion card, which is generated while executing the testing instructions; and

determining whether the electronic device communicates with the expansion card successfully based on the returned data;

parsing the returned data based on receiving parameters of the at least one configuration file; and

generating a log file based on the parsed returned data in response to the returned data been parsed successfully;

reading contents of a state flag in the log file; wherein

in a case that the contents of the state flag indicate the electronic device communicates with the expansion card successfully, determining the electronic device communicates with the expansion card successfully; and

in a case that the contents of the state flag indicate the electronic device fails to communicate with the expansion card, triggering an abnormal warning.

9 . The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the processor further:

reading sending parameters in the at least one configuration file; and

filling the sending parameters in a specified format and generating the testing instructions.

10 . The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the processor further:

in a case that the returned data is parsed unsuccessfully, triggering the abnormal warning.

11 . The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the processor further:

determining whether a number of the testing instructions is larger than or equal to a specified number, wherein

in a case that the number of the testing instructions is less than the specified number, sending the testing instructions to the expansion card; and

in a case that the number of the testing instructions is larger than or equal to the specified number, stopping testing.

12 . The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the processor further:

obtaining a device address of the expansion card and a channel address;

wherein the contents of the instructions is acquired based on the device address of the expansion card and the channel address.

13 . A testing system comprises an electronic device and an expansion card; wherein the electronic device is configured to:

acquire contents of instructions of a controller corresponding to the expansion card;

acquire contents of expected data corresponding to the contents of the instructions in response to the expansion card receiving the contents of instructions;

configure at least one configuration file based on the contents of instructions of a controller, and contents of expected data; wherein the controller is a baseboard management controller;

generate testing instructions based on the at least one configuration file;

send the testing instructions to the expansion card;

receive returned data from firmware of the expansion card, which is generated while executing the testing instructions; and

determines whether the electronic device communicates with the expansion card successfully based on the returned data;

wherein the electronic device is also configured to parse the returned data based on receiving parameters of the at least one configuration file, and generate a log file based on the parsed returned data when the returned data is parsed successfully; the electronic device is also configured to read contents of a state flag in the at least one configuration file; in a case that the contents of the state flag indicate that the electronic device communicates with the expansion card successfully, the electronic device communicates with the expansion card successfully; in case that the contents of the state flag indicate that the electronic device fails to communicate with the expansion card, an abnormal warning is generated.

14 . The testing system of claim 13 , wherein the electronic device is also configured to read sending parameters in the at least one configuration file, and fill the sending parameters in a specified format and generating the testing instructions.

15 . The testing system of claim 13 , wherein in a case that the returned data is parsed unsuccessfully, the abnormal warning is triggered.

16 . The testing system of claim 13 , wherein the electronic device is also configured to determine whether a number of the testing instructions is larger than or equal to a specified number; in a case that the number of the testing instructions is less than the specified number, the testing instructions are sent to the expansion card; in a case that the number of the testing instructions is larger than or equal to the specified number, stopping testing.

17 . The testing system of claim 13 , wherein the electronic device is also configured to obtain a device address of the expansion card and a channel address; wherein the contents of the instructions is acquired based on the device address of the expansion card and the channel address.

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