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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2002
Alan Hartman, Haifa, IL;
Kenneth Nagin, D.N. Nazareth Ilit, IL;
Guy Sharon, Rehovot, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Middleware is validated using a two layered modeling strategy for the generation of test suites. A high level model of the syntax of the programming language used to program the middleware generates a series of high level abstract programs. These high level abstract programs then undergo two separate translations. First they are translated directly into actual test programs, which are expressed in the programming language of the middleware. Second, they are translated into second models of the high level abstract programs. Running the model based test generator again on the second models produces a set of suites of test cases, each test case consisting of data inputs and predicted results for one of the actual test programs. The actual test programs are run repetitively using the middleware execution engine. The results are compared with the predicted results, using a generic validation engine.