International Business Machines Corporation

Joshua David Steen

Diane Marie Stamboni

Michael Page Kasper

Andrew C M Hicks

Thomas William Conti

Gregg M Arquero

Bryan Childs

Eric Rosenfeld

Scott Woolley

Roan Dawkins

Cyber security testing with automated system message processing for input and result determination is disclosed, including issuing, by a test tool, a call to an authorized service; identifying, by the test tool, one or more system-level error messages generated after issuing the call; determining, by the test tool based on at least one first system-level error message, a missing input for the call to the authorized service; and reissuing, by the test tool, the call to the authorized service with the missing input.

Cyber security testing with automated system message processing for input and result determination

A system and method for identifying authorized job step programs. The process identifies a plurality of job step programs. It then identifies authorized program facility (APF) authorized programs from the plurality of job step programs. An output table of APF authorized program is generated. This table is used to submit at least one batch job using the output table. A list identifying which parameters in a parameter string contain an address for each APF program in the output table is generated. This list is then provided for program testing.

Cyber security testing for incorrectly authorized programs

Aspects of the invention include receiving, by a processor, source code for a software program written in a first programming language. The received source code is converted into abstracted source code that is in a generic format that is different than a format of the first programming language. The abstracted source code is compared to known source code patterns. Based on determining that at least a subset of the abstracted source code matches a pattern in the known source code patterns, sending an alert to the user indicating that the received source code matches the pattern.

Automatic integrity vulnerability detection in an integrated development environment

Aspects of the invention include executing a first test case on a system, capturing a first state of the system during execution of the first test case, determining a first result of the first test case, performing a second execution of the first test case on the system in response to the first result of the first test case being an unexpected result, capturing a second state of the system during the second execution of the first test case, determining a second result of the first test case, analyzing the first state and the second state to determine a state similarity score, and categorizing the first result as a false positive based at least in part on the state similarity score being above a first threshold and a determination that the second result is a different result than the first result.

Test case failure with root cause isolation

Techniques for system kernel error identification and reporting for a computer system are described herein. An aspect includes detecting an error during the execution of a program. Another aspect includes determining whether the error is a system kernel error in the program. Another aspect includes, based on determining that the error is a system kernel error, generating a report regarding the determined system kernel error.

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Joshua David Steen