International Business Machines Corporation

Gianluca Seghetti

Riccardo Rossi

Gianluca Mariani

Pietro Marella

Massimo Marra

Ignazio F Trovato

Martha Pinelo

Claudio De Ingeniis

Mario Noioso

Danilo Allocca

Methods for testing a software application by providing one or more test units. Each test unit is adapted to verify a feature of the software application. A weight is assigned to each test unit. A theoretical sequence of execution of the test units is determined for the assigned weights and the test units are executed for the theoretical sequence.

Testing software applications with progress tracking

A method is presented for installing a software application on a data processing system that may include multiple data processing entities. The software application may include multiple components for installation on one or more of the entities. The method may include providing input information for each of the components designated for installation. Each component may then be installed according to its corresponding input information, and output information corresponding to each component may be generated. This output information may be provided to one or more data processing entities identified for installation of a subsequent component. The input information corresponding to the subsequent component may be at least partially determined from this output information.

Multi-component software application installation facility

Computer program products and systems for testing a software application by providing one or more test units. Each test unit is adapted to verify a feature of the software application. A weight is assigned to each test unit. A theoretical sequence of execution of the test units is determined for the assigned weights and the test units are executed for the theoretical sequence.

A solution for facilitating the test of a command line interface (CLI) of a software product is proposed. A first phase of a process generates a scenarios matrix. Each command of the CLI is defined with its arguments and the corresponding properties; the test activity is defined by specifying a desired accuracy level of the test process. The scenarios matrix can then be generated automatically, by selecting (according to the desired accuracy level) predefined rules specifying happy paths and errors cases for each property. A second phase generates corresponding test cases. An expected result is associated with each test scenario in the respective matrix. This allows creating a test document for the manual execution of the test process and/or a bucket for its automatic execution by an automation tool.

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Gianluca Seghetti