Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) (or a user navigation interface), is a common feature of computer systems and application well known to one having ordinary skill in the arts. In cloud service broker (CSB) environments, GUI rendering is more complicated because independent software vendors (ISV) distribute cloud applications (cloud services) through CSBs and allow different cloud applications to collaborate through standardized representational state transfer (RESTful) application program interfaces (API). If there are multiple applications that are integrated, the GUI may include numerous interfaces specifically tailored to the each of the specific applications. However, preparing all combinations of screens requires extensive development, which increases as more and more applications are integrated.

Abstract: The invention proposes a simpler and more efficient method for building a navigation schema in a cloud service broker platform (CSB) that builds a complex user interface (UI) from the CSB platform to an integrated connector application. The present disclosure automates navigation schema generation by obtaining a connector package, transforming a navigation schema therein from a hierarchical form to a plain form, and creating a modified schema for such. The present disclosure further discloses a method for creating a navigation schema template according to chosen placeholders and helps a user to fill in the template, and further check the created schema.

Abstract: Technologies for automatically validating the functionality of offers in a cloud service brokerage system include an offer validation computing device configured to identify scenarios of an offer to be validated and generate a series of high-level steps and placeholders for the scenarios of the offer which correspond to an application package associated with a cloud application. The offer validation computing device is further configured to determine one or more low-level steps for each of the placeholders, replace each of the placeholders with a corresponding one or more associated low-level steps, and package the one or more associated low-level steps and the generated high-level steps into a validation tool, which is usable by the cloud service brokerage system to automatically validate the functionality of the scenarios of the offer. Additional embodiments are described herein.

Abstract: The invention proposes a simpler and more efficient method for building a navigation schema in a cloud service broker platform (CSB) that builds a complex user interface (UI) from the CSB platform to an integrated connector application. The present disclosure automates navigation schema generation by obtaining a connector package, transforming a navigation schema therein from a hierarchical form to a plain form, and creating a modified schema for such. The present disclosure further discloses a method for creating a navigation schema template according to chosen placeholders and helps a user to fill in the template, and further check the created schema.

Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) (or a user navigation interface), is a common feature of computer systems and application well known to one having ordinary skill in the arts. In cloud service broker (CSB) environments, GUI rendering is more complicated because independent software vendors (ISV) distribute cloud applications (cloud services) through CSBs and allow different cloud applications to collaborate through standardized representational state transfer (RESTful) application program interfaces (API). If there are multiple applications that are integrated, the GUI may include numerous interfaces specifically tailored to the each of the specific applications. However, preparing all combinations of screens requires extensive development, which increases as more and more applications are integrated.

Abstract: Technologies for automatically validating the functionality of offers in a cloud service brokerage system include an offer validation computing device configured to identify scenarios of an offer to be validated and generate a series of high-level steps and placeholders for the scenarios of the offer which correspond to an application package associated with a cloud application. The offer validation computing device is further configured to determine one or more low-level steps for each of the placeholders, replace each of the placeholders with a corresponding one or more associated low-level steps, and package the one or more associated low-level steps and the generated high-level steps into a validation tool, which is usable by the cloud service brokerage system to automatically validate the functionality of the scenarios of the offer. Additional embodiments are described herein.