Method and apparatus for test modeling

A system having a processor, the processor being adapted to perform the steps of:

• receiving a user document describing at least a part of a system to be tested;
• computing a similarity measurement between the user document and documents in a document corpus, wherein each document in the document corpus describes at least part of a system and is associated with a combinatorial model representing the at least part of the system, wherein the combinatorial model defines a test space, the combinatorial model comprising a set of attributes, a respective domain for each attribute defining possible values for the attribute, and restrictions, wherein each restriction of the restrictions comprises at least one attribute, a respective value thereof and a logical operator;
• based upon the similarity measurement, selecting one or more selected documents from the document corpus;
• obtaining one or more combinatorial models corresponding to the one or more selected documents;
• selecting one or more elements from the one or more combinatorial models;
• and
• generating an initial combinatorial model for the user document, wherein said generating comprises adding the one or more elements to the initial combinatorial model.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium retaining program instructions, which instructions when read by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

• receiving a user document describing at least a part of a system to be tested;
• computing a similarity measurement between the user document and documents in a document corpus, wherein each document in the document corpus describes at least part of a system and is associated with a combinatorial model representing the at least part of the system, wherein the combinatorial model defines a test space, the combinatorial model comprising a set of attributes, a respective domain for each attribute defining possible values for the attribute, and restrictions, wherein each restriction of the restrictions comprises at least one attribute, a respective value thereof and a logical operator;
• based upon the similarity measurement, selecting one or more selected documents from the document corpus;
• obtaining one or more combinatorial models corresponding to the one or more selected documents;
• selecting one or more elements from the one or more combinatorial models;
• and
• generating an initial combinatorial model for the user document, wherein said generating comprises adding the one or more elements to the initial combinatorial model.