Patent ID: 7725891
Filing Date: 2010-05-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method to effect changes in a software system landscape with a plurality of logical software systems that are interconnected by logical transport paths, comprising: providing one of a plurality of system roles for each logical system; providing system role types, each system role of the plurality of system roles being associated with one of the system role types, low level operational tasks being assigned to the system role types, the system role types comprising source systems, follow-on systems, and target systems, the follow-on systems comprising at least one of a training system, a testing system, and or a quality assurance system; providing a transport track comprising at least one transport path, the transport track defining a route through logical systems subsequently and that specifies one source system, at least one of the follow-on systems, and at least one target system; generating transport requests for transporting software changes; providing high level operational tasks in the software development system that define software changes; automatically generating a separate and distinct low level operational required task list in the software development system for each of the separate computer systems affected by the software changes by: executing the low level operational tasks in the respective list by the respective system for routing the transport requests through the system landscape and for effecting the software changes.