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Stefan Rau

Uwe Bloching

Frank Brunswig

Martin Hartig

Thomas Fiedler

Johannes Viegener

Volker Wiechers

Oliver C Goetz

Stefan Wenneker

Udo Peter Klein

Bare Said

Frank Jentsch

Thomas Gauweiler

Steffen Tatzel

Adam Polly

Michael Haberkorn

Daniel Bos

Oliver Wetzel

Systems and methods provide a generic factory class to determine one or more classes implementing an interface and/or derived from a base class in response to a call from an application factory class by retrieving a list of the one or more classes implementing the interface or derived from the based class, determining properties of each of the one or more classes, and return, based on the properties, a name of each of one or more of the one or more classes.

Generic factory class

Provided is a framework including a generic communication layer that facilitates a separation between communication connections for different communication technologies and an application interfacing with the communication connections. The framework generally includes a remote interface layer including communication interfaces that generically communicate with a client, an application layer that includes applications represented by a set of services that use the communication interfaces to communicate with a client, and a service layer that includes one or more services. The framework includes mechanisms to map parameters of a specific communication technology to a standardized parameter structure that can be used by different service-based applications. In some aspects, the disclosed framework functions to encapsulate each service of an application in a configuration that is communication protocol specific independent of the implementation of the service, where the configuration specifies how the framework is to map services of the application to a specific communication protocol.

Generic communication layer

A method, system, and computer-readable medium to generate time based data, including defining a time based data generation scenario, the time based data generation scenario including at least one event, the event representing an action at a specific time; a plurality of time segments, each time segment defining a particular temporal phase of the scenario and at least one time segment being embedded with the at least one event; and a time envelope to embed time segments; and generating time based data by executing the time based data generation scenario.

Method and system for time-based data generation

In a system and a method, a sub-test catalog is retrieved from a test catalog repository. A test aspect of the sub-test catalog is compared to an aspect of a software application to be tested. A required system capability of the sub-test catalog is compared to the capabilities of a system landscape based on a determination that the sub-test catalog test aspect matches the aspect of the software application to be tested. The system landscape includes at least one system. The sub-test catalog is added to a master test catalog based on a determination that the required system capability of the sub-test catalog matches the system landscape capabilities.

Aspect and system landscape capability-driven automatic testing of software applications

A system, computer readable storage medium including instructions, and a computer-implemented method for testing a software unit of an application is described. A method signature for a method of the software unit of the application is received. A generic test specification for a generic test of the method is identified based on the method signature, the generic test specification being one of a plurality of test specifications, wherein the generic test specification includes a definition for at least one reference input parameter value of the method and a definition for at least one reference output parameter value of the method. The method is executed using the at least one reference input parameter value to produce at least one test output parameter value. A test result is determined based on a comparison between the at least one test output parameter value and the at least one reference output parameter value.

System and method for testing a software unit of an application

A method includes receiving a request from a client to perform an application operation, transmitting a generic application persistency statement defined in an application template corresponding to the application, where the template belongs to a set of predefined application templates. Searching a logical database for a first location having entries corresponding to a technical key and an operation identifier, determining a second technical key based on content stored at the first location, searching the logical database for a second location having entries corresponding to the second technical key and a dataset key, determining a third technical key based on content stored at the second location, and accessing locations of the logical database based on the third technical key, wherein the contents of the logical database locations correspond to content of a physical database. A system to implement the method and a computer readable medium are disclosed.

Generic application persistence database

Disclosed are methods and systems for calculating test coverage of a software organizational schema. The method and systems involve retrieving the software organizational schema associated with an application, receiving an assigned weight factor to the one or more software organizational schema components associated with the application, determining a number of processed code lines and a total number of the code lines associated with the one or more software organizational schema components, calculating a test coverage for the one or more software organizational schema components based on the weight factor, the number of processed code lines and the total number of code lines of the software organizational schema component.

Systems and methods for analyzing test coverage at an organizational level

A method is provided for providing one or more services by a service provider to a service consumer. The method may include defining a meta-model describing at least one core service and at least one compound service; creating a model for the core service based on the meta-model; and implementing the core service on the service provider based on the model. The method may also include implementing the compound service on the service provider and implementing a generic access interface on the service consumer to dynamically access the core service and the compound service.

Computer software development incorporating core and compound services

Systems and methods are provided for adapting a procedure call from a service manager to a service provider in a computer framework. An inbound procedure call is received, requesting an inbound procedure to operate on an object. Then, the inbound procedure is transformed to an outbound procedure based on a stored mapping of input procedures to output procedures. The outbound procedure is called from the service provider to operate on the object.

Systems and methods for adapting procedure calls to service providers

Systems, methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for saving a plurality of objects to persistent storage as part of a finalize sequence. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method may include, receiving a request to instantiate a plurality of objects; sorting the plurality of objects based on a priority assigned to each of the plurality of objects before the request to instantiate the objects is received; and saving in sequence the sorted plurality of objects to the persistent storage.

Finalize sequencing for objects

In an embodiment, a method is provided for tracking a test. In this method, a test session identifier is transmitted to a test system. The test session identifier identifies a particular test session. A test of a component is triggered at the test system, and this test provides test results, which are received from the test system. The test results include the test session identifier, which allows the tests to be associated with the particular test session.

Testing of distributed systems

Embodiments consistent with the principles of the invention check, before the data underlying a changed primary object is persistently save, for related objects whose data is also affected by the change. The related objects may be two or more degrees removed from the primary object. The changed primary object and all its changed related objects are then persistently saved together, so that the saved data is consistent across the related objects. Embodiments consistent with the principles of the invention also provide a state model for controlling access to services by clients and for making services available by servers.

Systems and methods for an enterprise services framework using a state model

Methods and systems for calling a service provider using a service manager and a local client proxy. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is provided to instantiate the service manager, the service provider, and the local client proxy. In response to the service provider, the local client proxy calls another service provider through the service manager to complete the call to the other service provider.

Systems and methods for providing a local client proxy

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, provided default values for business objects. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method for providing default values for attributes of business objects. The method may comprise receiving, at a first service provider, a call to instantiate a first business object. The method may then obtain a static default value of an attribute associated with the first business object. A second service provider may be called to determine a dynamic default value for the attribute based on the static default value. The first service provider may then be provided with the dynamic default value for use when instantiating the first business object.

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