Developing software components and capability testing procedures for testing coded software component

A system for developing a software product, comprising:

• a plurality of developer systems used by developers and testers of the software product;
• a shared repository accessible to the developer systems, comprising:
• documentation describing capability test test cases used to test components implementing operations of the software product;
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• documentation describing component abstract test cases incorporating information on capability test test cases;
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• a software development program deployed to the developer systems to enable developers and testers of the software product to:
• generate capability test programs implementing the capability test test cases for the components, wherein component developers use the capability test programs to test components during the development and coding of the components;
• generate component test programs implementing the component abstract test cases for the components and utilizing capability test programs, wherein each component test program tests one component for at least one test case specified in the component abstract test case documentation for the component;
• store the capability test programs and component test programs in a shared repository accessible to multiple developers and testers of the software product;
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• execute groups of component test programs in the shared repository to test the components during different phases of the development of the software product.

A computer executable software development program in a computer readable medium deployed to developer systems used by developers and testers developing a software product, wherein the developer systems can access a shared repository and execute the software development program to perform operations comprising:

• generating capability test programs implementing capability test test cases for the components defined in documentation in the shared repository describing capability test test cases used to test components implementing operations of the software product, wherein component developers use the capability test programs to test components during the development and coding of the components;
• generating component test programs implementing component abstract test cases for the components defined in documentation in the shared repository describing component abstract test cases incorporating information on capability test test cases, wherein the component test programs utilizes capability test programs, wherein each component test program tests one component for at least one test case specified in the component abstract test case documentation for the component;
• storing the capability test programs and component test programs in the shared repository accessible to multiple developers and testers of the software product;
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• executing groups of component test programs in the shared repository to test the components during different phases of the development of the software product.