International Business Machines Corporation

Edoardo Turano

Ilaria Gorga

Salvatore Branca

Angela Molinari

Francesca Curzi

S Benedetta Stasi

A mechanism is provided for accessing hypertext documents on a data processing system. A plurality of selected documents are opened. An affinity indicator is calculated for each pair of selected hypertext documents according to a comparison between semantic information of a content of each selected hypertext document of the pair. The selected hypertext documents are grouped into a set of groups by assigning each selected hypertext document to at least one group in the set of groups according to the affinity indicators. The selected hypertext documents are then displayed in an arrangement corresponding to the grouping thereof.

Display of hypertext documents grouped according to their affinity

A message within a message queue can be identified. The message queue can be within a software entity of a computing device. The message can be analyzed to determine an encoding scheme to apply to the message. The message can be encoded using the encoding scheme to create an encoded message. The encoding scheme can be a word level encoding scheme, a language-based encoding scheme, or a grammar encoding scheme.

Leveraging language structure to dynamically compress a short message service (SMS) message

A solution is proposed for populating a symptom collection&#x2014;such as a symptom database&#x2014;for a software application. The symptom collection includes an indication of a set of symptoms; each symptom consists of an undesired behavior of the software application, which symptom is due to each one of a set of corresponding problems of the software application (resulting from a misuse thereof). The symptom database also includes an indication of an explanation of each problem. A corresponding method involves performing a test of the software application for verifying a correctness of the software application. The symptom collection is then populated according to a result of the test.

Automatically populating symptom databases for software applications

A solution is proposed for testing a software application. The test includes the execution of a series of test cases, each one involving the application of a predefined test input to the software application. The software application generates a corresponding output in response to this test input. A result of the test case is determined by comparing the actual output provided by the software application with an expected output thereof. The expected output of the test case is determined automatically. For this purpose, multiple auxiliary sources are exploited, such as other software applications different from the one under test. Each auxiliary source receives a corresponding input, derived from the test input, which is intended to cause the auxiliary source to provide the same expected output as the software application. The expected output is then estimated according to the actual outputs provided by the different auxiliary sources.

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Edoardo Turano