Generation of test data for a data platform
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsChikafumi Yasumoto, Yutaka Oishi, Munetaka Ohtani, Jiayun Zhu, Kumiko Maeda, Yoshinori Tahara
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Abstract
Test data may be generated by classifying a plurality of medical records of patients into a plurality of groups, based on at least an execution characteristic of a processing program that processes the medical records, and generating test data including at least a part of the plurality of medical records based on proportions of the number of the medical records classified into the plurality of groups.
Claims13
A computer program product including one or more computer readable storage mediums collectively storing program instructions that are executable by a processor or programmable circuitry to cause the processor or programmable circuitry to perform operations comprising:
- classifying, with a classifying program, a plurality of medical records of patients into a plurality of groups, based on at least an execution characteristic of a processing program that processes the medical records, wherein:
- the classifying program is distinct from the processing program,
- the execution characteristic represents how each medical record is treated when processed by the processing program,
- the execution characteristic includes a code pass and the processing program processes the medical records through the code pass,
- each group of the medical records represents a specific type of code pass, and
- the classifying of the plurality of medical records includes determining a code pass of each medical record through the processing program by identifying one or more branches in the processing program and performing a condition estimation through the one or more branches for one or more attributes of each medical record without actually running the processing program;
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- generating test data for testing the processing program, the test data including at least a part of the plurality of medical records based on proportions of the number of the medical records classified into the plurality of groups;
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- testing the processing program using the generated test data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.