Patent ID: 7949901

Claim:
A computer-readable medium storing a program for automatically generating a system test description for a computer system, the program, when executed by a computer, causing the computer system to perform a procedure comprising: analyzing stored update records each including a process identifier that uniquely identifies a data updating process executed on a dataset, a dataset name indicating which dataset was updated by the data updating process, and an update timestamp indicating when the dataset was updated, to create a flow descriptor for each data updating process identified by the process identifier, the flow descriptor containing the dataset names of all datasets updated by the data updating process, the dataset names being sorted in chronological order of the update timestamps; retrieving function test data corresponding to each operation step of an operation flow indicated by the created flow descriptor, by consulting stored function test data which indicates procedures of function tests for checking whether each module realizing operation steps of operation flows executed on the computer system satisfies specified requirements; and producing, from the retrieved function test data, a system test description describing the order of the function tests for each operation flow indicated by the created flow descriptor, wherein the order of the function tests described in the created system test description matches with that of operation steps constituting the operation flow.