Patent ID: 7509626

Claim:
A system for a purchasing organization for demonstrating proof of concept of a project supplied by a vendor to be used by the purchasing organization, the system comprising: an executable requirements component stored on a computer readable medium, wherein, upon being executed, the requirements component maintains requirements of the purchasing organization for the project; an executable use case component stored on a computer readable medium, wherein, upon being executed, the use case component maintains a plurality of use cases comprising functional, performance, scalability, and longevity tests to be preformed, each of the plurality of use cases associated with at least one of the requirements, wherein each of the use cases are weighted based upon their importance; an executable log component stored on a computer readable medium, wherein, upon being executed, the log component tracks results of the project executing at least some of the plurality of use cases, the log component further tracks at least some defects of the project that are identified based on executing some of the plurality of use cases; and an executable reporting component stored on a computer readable medium, wherein, upon being executed, the reporting component reports the results to the purchasing organization for the at least some of the use cases.