US Patent 10437712 API functional-test generation

Provided is a process, including: obtaining a model of an application program interface (“API”); receiving a request to generate a functional-test specification for the API; detecting sets of functionality identified by the model of the API and respective sets of parameters corresponding to the detected sets of functionality by parsing the model of the API; in response to receiving the request, generating the functional-test specification for the API by, for at least some respective detected sets of functionality, specifying respective sets of functional tests based on corresponding sets of parameters.