Method for Generating Specifications of Static Test

• US 20120054713A1
• Filed: 08/24/2010
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Amano, Tomio
• Granted Patent: US 8,645,908 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven

Abstract

A computer implemented rule for verifying consistency in design documents is modeled as a set of associations among deliverable components, and a descriptive text explaining the specification is generated in combination with a text template.

Claims

1. A method for the generation of static test specification text, the method comprising:

modeling an association between at least two components of a first design document;

modeling at least one check rule as an association class among said at least two components;

defining a template for the text of each association class; and

creating a specification text.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of creating a specification text further comprises:

connecting said template for the text of each association class;

defining a specification text for said check rule; and

defining a specification text for each association class.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of creating a specification text further comprises the following when the text of an association class contains a variable portion:

fixing said variable portion by following the associations between said at least two components of said design document.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said modeling steps utilize a standardized modeling language.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said standardized modeling language is Unified Modeling Language (“

UML”

).

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising an existence check rule, said existence check rule comprising:

determining whether at least one component of a first design document is found in a second design document.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising an identity check rule, said identity check rule comprising:

determining whether said at least one component of said first design document coincides with a corresponding component identified by said existence check rule in said second design document.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one check rule is stored as Extensible Markup Language (XML) data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said template is described by XSL Transformations (XSLT).

10. A computer system for generating static test specification text, said system comprising:

means for modeling an association between at least two components of a first design document;

means for modeling at least one check rule as an association class among said at least two components;

means for defining a template for the text of each association class; and

means for creating a specification text.

11. The computer system according to claim 10, further comprising:

means for connecting said template for the text of each association class;

means for defining a specification text for said check rule; and

means for defining a specification text for each association class.

12. The computer system according to claim 10, wherein the means for creating a specification text further comprises the following when the text of an association class contains a variable portion:

means for fixing said variable portion by following the associations between said at least two components of said design document.

13. The computer system according to claim 10, further comprising:

means for creating an existence check rule, wherein said existence check rule comprises means for determining whether at least one component of a first design document is found in a second design document.

14. The computer system according to claim 13, further comprising:

means for creating an identity check rule, wherein said identity check rule comprises means for determining whether said at least one component of said first design document coincides with a corresponding component identified by said existence check rule in said second design document.

15. A computer program stored on a computer readable storage medium, the program comprising instructions for generating static test specification text, said computer program comprising:

means for modeling an association between at least two components of a first design document;

means for modeling at least one check rule as an association class among said at least two components;

means for defining a template for the text of each association class; and

means for creating a specification text.

16. The computer program according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for connecting said template for the text of each association class;

means for defining a specification text for said check rule; and

means for defining a specification text for each association class.

17. The computer program according to claim 15, wherein the means for creating a specification text further comprises the following when the text of an association class contains a variable portion:

means for fixing said variable portion by following the associations between said at least two components of said design document.

18. The computer program according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for creating an existence check rule, wherein said existence check rule comprises means for determining whether at least one component of a first design document is found in a second design document.

19. The computer program according to claim 18, further comprising:

means for creating an identity check rule, wherein said identity check rule comprises means for determining whether said at least one component of said first design document coincides with a corresponding component identified by said existence check rule in said second design document.