Patent ID: 9235496
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for generating test data for testing an application from a database having a table comprising at least one column, the method comprising: receiving a test data query that specifies at least one selection parameter; identifying a data domain associated with the at least one selection parameter, the data domain corresponding to a column in the table and including for each unique value in the column a corresponding unique entity identifier; selecting, within the identified data domain, one or more entity identifiers that correspond to one or more values satisfying the at least one selection parameter; automatically generating an entity selection map that specifies the one or more selected entity identifiers included in the data domain; automatically generating a test data definition associated with the test data query based on the entity selection map, the test data definition identifying test data in the database associated with the one or more selected entity identifiers; and automatically executing the test data definition to extract the test data.