US Patent 8640084 Generating validation test suites

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a modeling language representation of a system under test. The representation includes one or more Message Sequence Charts (MSCs). One or more of the MSCs includes one or more conditional constructs including at least one or more guards or one or more loops. The method includes generating one or more use scenarios based on the modeling language representation and generating one or more validation test suites based on the one or more use scenarios.