Patent ID: 6993448

Claim:
A computer-assisted method of generating at least one test procedure for a target system having at least one device capable of being identified, each of the at least one device having hardware and/or software, said method comprising the steps of: a) collecting information descriptive of at least a hardware and/or software specification for the at least one device; b) selecting at least one predefined standard, regulation and/or requirement with which the target system is to comply; c) associating hardware and/or software information pertaining to the at least one device, collected in said step a), with at least one pre-defined platform category; d) for each of said at least one platform category, determining which of one or more test procedures will be used to test hardware and/or software associated with said at least one platform category based on a mapping between the test procedures and the at least one predefined standard, regulation and/or requirement; and e) generating one or more test procedures as determined in said step d) for each platform category.