US 2017/0322779 A1Published application

Ascii based instant prototype generation

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsSantanu Bandyopadhyay, Ramesh C. Pathak, Suryanarayana K. Rao, Sautam Sengupta

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Abstract

An approach to generating an application prototype. The approach parses ASCII text-based requirements into a collection of sentences and parses the collection of sentences into collections words associated with the collection of sentences. The approach then uses an ASCII dictionary to determine the nouns and verbs found in the collections of words marking the nouns as entities and the verbs as responsibilities. Further, the approach determines if nouns are shared among the collection of sentences and if they are, then records relationships between the sentences. The approach then generates metadata describing these components and generates byte code based on the metadata. The approach packages the byte code, other data relating to the entry point and type of prototype application, e.g., web-based or standalone and an encryption module for distribution.

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Dependent claims

A method for creating an application prototype from text-based requirements, the method comprising:

creating, by a prototype generation component, a collection of one or more sentences based on parsing a collection of text-based requirements;
creating, by the prototype generation component, one or more collections of words based on parsing the one or more sentences, respectively;
identifying, by the prototype generation component, nouns and verbs in the one or more collections of words, wherein the nouns are entities and the verbs are responsibilities associated with the entities;
determining, by the prototype generation component, if identified entities in one of the one or more collections of words is present in one or more of a remainder of the one or more collections of words;
responsive to the determining, by the prototype generation component, the identified entities are present in one or more of the remainder of the one or more collections of words, creating one or more collaborations between the entities and a plurality of the one or more collections of words comprising the entities, respectively;
creating, by the prototype generation component, metadata comprising the entities, the responsibilities and the collaborations for their associated one or more collections of words;
and
creating, by the prototype generation component, an application prototype based on the metadata and a type for the prototype.

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A computer program product for creating an application prototype from text-based requirements, the computer program product comprising:

one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to create, by a prototype generation component, a collection of one or more sentences based on parsing a collection of text-based requirements;
program instructions to create, by the prototype generation component, one or more collections of words based on parsing the one or more sentences, respectively;
program instructions to identify, by the prototype generation component, nouns and verbs in the one or more collections of words, wherein the nouns are entities and the verbs are responsibilities associated with the entities;
program instructions to determine, by the prototype generation component, if identified entities in one of the one or more collections of words is present in one or more of a remainder of the one or more collections of words;
responsive to the program instructions to determine, by the prototype generation component, the identified entities are present in one or more of the remainder of the one or more collections of words, program instructions to create one or more collaborations between the entities and a plurality of the one or more collections of words comprising the entities, respectively;
program instructions to create, by the prototype generation component, metadata comprising the entities, the responsibilities and the collaborations for their associated one or more collections of words;
and
program instructions to create, by the prototype generation component, an application prototype based on the metadata and a type for the prototype.

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A computer system for creating an application prototype from text-based requirements, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors;
one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media;
program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to create, by a prototype generation component, a collection of one or more sentences based on parsing a collection of text-based requirements;
program instructions to create, by the prototype generation component, one or more collections of words based on parsing the one or more sentences, respectively;
program instructions to identify, by the prototype generation component, nouns and verbs in the one or more collections of words, wherein the nouns are entities and the verbs are responsibilities associated with the entities;
program instructions to determine, by the prototype generation component, if identified entities in one of the one or more collections of words is present in one or more of a remainder of the one or more collections of words;
responsive to the program instructions to determine, by the prototype generation component, the identified entities are present in one or more of the remainder of the one or more collections of words, program instructions to create one or more collaborations between the entities and a plurality of the one or more collections of words comprising the entities, respectively;
program instructions to create, by the prototype generation component, metadata comprising the entities, the responsibilities and the collaborations for their associated one or more collections of words;
and
program instructions to create, by the prototype generation component, an application prototype based on the metadata and a type for the prototype.

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