Patent Document ID: 8972349
Application ID: 13369210

Base Claim:
1. In a general purpose computer, a method for automatically testing a business intelligence artifact in a business intelligence system, comprising: authoring a business intelligence artifact in the business intelligence system, wherein the business intelligence artifact produces output when the business intelligence artifact is executed in the business intelligence system, and wherein the business intelligence artifact is selected from the group consisting of: a report specification, an analysis cube, and a metadata model; creating at least one assertion to determine whether the business intelligence artifact is functioning properly; testing, with an automated agent interfaced with the business intelligence system, the business intelligence artifact to verify its proper functioning by determining whether the conditions of the at least one assertion are satisfied upon execution of the business intelligence artifact in the business intelligence system; reporting if the conditions of the at least one assertion are not satisfied upon execution of the business intelligence artifact in the business intelligence system; and recording one or more corrections made to the business intelligence artifact as a subsequent version of the business intelligence artifact.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising automatically recording current and previous versions of the business intelligence artifact as corrections are made to the business intelligence artifact.