US Patent 8683446 Generation of test cases for functional testing of applications

An automated system and method to generate functional conformance tests for applications are provided. The system and method in one aspect use Inputs, Outputs, Preconditions, Effects (IOPEs) paradigm associated with an application for automatically generating test goals. A planner component may accept these testing goals to generate a sequence of operations or invocations as a test case. Verification sequences are also generated. The system and method also allow generation of executable test cases, which can be applied to the various interfaces through which the application may be accessed.