Patent ID: 11941431
Assignee: PARALLELS INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A method for managing software applications,
comprising: establishing a chain application comprising a sequence of two or more applications;
automatically establishing an order of the two or more applications within a chain application creation and management utility in dependence upon the application profiles of the two or more applications; and
automatically testing the chain application with a chain application creation and management utility to verify that input and output results of the chain application are as expected; wherein
each application profile contains information pertaining to one or more types of data that can be passed into the application and one or more other types of data that can be produced by the application; and
each application of the two or more application has associated with it an application profile which contains information pertaining to the types of data can be passed into the respective application and the types of data that can be produced by the application.