Patent ID: 6980975

Claim:
A computer program product for rule-based random irritation of a UUT model in a simulation of a UUT, the UUT model being a software model of the UUT, the computer program product having a computer-readable medium with a computer program embodied thereon, the computer program comprising: an extractor program code for extracting one or more inputs and one or more outputs of the UUT; a pattern generator program code for generating data patterns to be applied to the UUT model in accordance with a rules list and information on the one or more inputs and the one or more outputs of the UUT, the rules list providing restrictions or encouragements on how the data patterns are to be applied to the UUT model; a simulator program code for applying the data patterns to the UUT model; and a software environment program code for interfacing communications between the extractor program code, the pattern generator program code, and the simulator program code.