International Business Machines Corporation

Steven M Kagan

Kathryn Allyn Bassin

Shao Chun Li

Susan Eileen Skrabanek

He H Liu

Zhong Xian Li

Hua Fang Tan

Jian Ding

Howard M Hess

Sheng Huang

Susan E Smith

Jun Zhu

Ian E Baker

Li Wang

Hao Chen

Feng Li

Xin Zhou

Ya Bin Dang

John Arthur Ricketts

Claudio Cozzi

William M Thompson

Katherine C Hegmann

Philip J Morales

Jeffrey L Robinson

Sandeep Khanna

A method includes generating a test model based on at least one of test group dependencies and test group constraints and generating a resource base. The method includes generating a cost model and generating a resource allocation plan based on the test model, the resource base, and the cost model.

System and method for resource modeling and simulation in test planning

A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to receive data including defect analysis defect analysis starter (DAS)/defect reduction method (DRM) defect analysis data of a software development project and process the data. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to determine one or more business metrics based on the data and generate at least one report based on the one or more business metrics. The one or more business metrics comprises at least one of a benefit for shifting defect removal earlier, a benefit for preventing an injection of defects, a benefit for reducing a cycle time, a benefit of reducing invalid defects and a benefit for reducing production defects.

System and method to produce business case metrics based on defect analysis starter (DAS) results

A method includes creating a macro plan for a test project, creating a micro plan for the test project, wherein the micro plan and the macro plan are based on at least one common parameter, and reconciling the macro plan and the micro plan by identifying deviations between the macro plan and the micro plan based on the at least one common parameter.

System and method for efficient creation and reconciliation of macro and micro level test plans

A method and associated systems for analyzing a change request of a project that involves an IT system, where IT system contains IT artifacts that have predefined relationships. One or more processors obtain a change request; use information contained in the change request to select an applicable decomposition agent; use information in the selected decomposition agent to decompose the change request into a set of component sub-change requests; correlate at least one of the sub-change requests with one of the IT artifacts; and display the sub-change requests. In alternate implementations, selecting the applicable decomposition agent may require additional user input.

Change-request analysis

A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to receive a tool error output determined by a code inspection tool and select at least one defect classification mapping profile based on the code inspection tool. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to map the tool error output to one or more output classifications using the selected at least one defect classification mapping profile and generate at least one report based on the one or more output classifications.

System and method to classify automated code inspection services defect output for defect analysis

A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to receive a maturity level for an organization and select at least one defect analysis starter/defect reduction method (DAS/DRM) defect profile based on the maturity level. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to determine a projection analysis for one or more stages of the life cycle of a software code project of the organization based on the at least one DAS/DRM defect profile.

System and method to map defect reduction data to organizational maturity profiles for defect projection modeling

A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to receive one or more risk factors, receive one or more contexts, identify one or more context relationships and associate the one or more contexts with the one or more risk factors. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to map the one or more risk factors for an associated context to a software defect related risk consequence to determine a risk model and execute a risk-based testing based on the risk model to determine a defect related risk evaluation for a software development project.

System and method to determine defect risks in software solutions

A compute-implemented method and apparatus for assisting release planning, including steps of: obtaining remaining requirements that are expected to be included in a current release plan; obtaining the release plan, which comprises a set of planned requirements that are already included in the release plan and a set of release constraints; determining that there is a conflict between the release constraints and the planned requirements; rendering, in response to this determination, a proposal to create a modified release plan that is a function of the remaining requirements and of the current release plan; and forecasting, as a function of the remaining requirements and of the modified release plan, whether the addition of another requirement to the release plan would create a conflict with the release constraints.

Computer-assisted release planning

A method includes generating a test model based on at least one of test group dependencies and test group constraints and generating a resource base. the method includes generating a cost model and generating a resource allocation plan based on the test model, the resource base, and the cost model.

A method for impact analysis of change requests of a computing system is provided. The method includes, identifying artifacts and tasks that are impacted by a change request on a target project based on a change request repository, an artifact dependency network and a task-artifact mapping repository. The method further includes, determining an impact analysis priority for each of the identified tasks based on associations among the change request and the identified artifacts and tasks, and a project status tracking repository. The method further includes analyzing an impact of the change request on each of the identified tasks according to the determined impact analysis priority. The method further includes obtaining requirements, requirement dependencies and requirement constraints of the project scope to identifying artifacts and tasks that are impacted by a change request on the target project of the project scope.

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