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Creating an intelligent testing queue for improved quality assurance testing of microservices

US11221943B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 21, 2020
Grant dateJan 11, 2022
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Expiry dateJul 18, 2040

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F11/3688
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Described is a system for creating an intelligent testing queue for improved quality assurance (QA) testing of services (or microservices). The system may perform a graphical analysis of interactions between services to derive testing constraints. For example, the system may monitor services to identify interactions (e.g. API accesses) between the services, and store the interactions as a directed graph representation. The system may traverse the directed graph (e.g. via a breadth-first search) to determine service dependencies. Based on the probability of failure for the testing operations and the service dependencies, the system create a specialized testing queue. By performing testing operations according to the specialized queue, the system may improve certain metrics associated with QA processes such as mean time to failure (MTTF) and mean time to diagnose (MTTD).

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