Patent ID: 8370809
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for automated test case generation, the method comprising: identifying a first plurality of mutually exclusive values for at least one input parameter associated with an operation; identifying a second plurality of mutually exclusive values for at least one output parameter associated with the operation; selecting one of the first plurality of mutually exclusive values for each of the at least one input parameter and one of the second plurality of mutually exclusive values for the output parameter; and automatically generating a test case for the operation utilizing the selected one of the first plurality of mutually exclusive values and the selected one of the second plurality of mutually exclusive values; wherein selecting the one of the first plurality of mutually exclusive values and the one of the second plurality of mutually exclusive values includes first selecting the one of the second plurality of mutually exclusive values and second selecting one of the first plurality of mutually exclusive values that is predetermined to be valid with respect to the selected one of the second plurality of mutually exclusive values, and an expression associated with the selected one of the second plurality of mutually exclusive values indicates which of the first plurality of mutually exclusive values is valid with respect to the selected one of the second plurality of mutually exclusive values.