Syntactic to semantic binding

A method comprising:

• sending a request for a data set to a data provider, the request specifying a syntactic type and a semantic meaning for data values of the requested data set;
• receiving the requested data set from the data provider;
• and
• performing an operation on a software module using the data values of the requested data set.

A device comprising:

• at least one processor;
• one or more media including processor-executable instructions that are capable of being executed by the at least one processor, the processor-executable instructions adapted to direct the device to establish an application programming interface (API) for requested data, the API comprising:
• a syntactic type of the requested data;
• and
• a semantic meaning of the requested data;
• wherein the processor-executable instructions are further adapted to direct the device to provide a data set having the syntactic type and the semantic meaning of the requested data.

One or more processor-accessible media including processor-executable instructions that comprise a client testing application, the client testing application capable of extracting a syntactic type and ascertaining an associated semantic meaning of an argument from a target software module;

• the client testing application adapted to direct a device to perform actions comprising:
• requesting a data set from a data provider, a request thereof specifying the syntactic type and the associated semantic meaning of the argument;
• and
• applying the data set to the target software module.

An arrangement for syntactic to semantic binding, the arrangement comprising:

• determination means for determining syntactic types and names of arguments of multiple methods to be tested;
• request means for requesting synmantic data objects from a semantic binding library based on the determined syntactic types and names of the arguments;
• and
• application means for calling each method with at least one returned synmantic data object.