International Business Machines Corporation

Avik Sinha

Amitkumar Manoharrao Paradkar

Mark N Wegman

Clay Edwin Williams

Murray Robert Cantor

Sunita Chulani

Annie T T Ying

Robert Delmonico

Giuseppe Valetto

Vedakkedathu T Rajan

One or more process models from natural language use case models are derived, for example, by creating, using a processor, an in-memory model of a use case from information in natural language text describing the use case; transforming the in-memory model into a process model in predetermined modeling notation; and generating a selected business process model using the process model.

Deriving process models from natural language use case models

An automated system and method to generate functional conformance tests for applications are provided. The system and method in one aspect use Inputs, Outputs, Preconditions, Effects (IOPEs) paradigm associated with an application for automatically generating test goals. A planner component may accept these testing goals to generate a sequence of operations or invocations as a test case. Verification sequences are also generated. The system and method also allow generation of executable test cases, which can be applied to the various interfaces through which the application may be accessed.

Generation of test cases for functional testing of applications

A method and system of reducing risk in the life cycle of a product, in one aspect, obtain one or more tasks required to achieve an overall task, determine risk impact of each task, the risk impact being an impact of each task on the likelihood of failure for the overall task and compute risk of overall task based on risk impacts of the tasks. The method and system utilize said risk impact of each task to schedule the tasks in such a way so as to reduce said risk of overall task as rapidly as possible.

Method for reducing risk associated with a task

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