Enabling end-to-end testing of applications across networks

US8275586B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Oliver Birch · Annapolis, US
• Can P. Boyacigiller · Annapolis, US
• Christopher Charles Dacombe · Ellicott City, US
• Sreenivasa Rao Pamidala · Crofton, US
• Zhijian Pan · Clarksville, US
• Bouna Sall · Bowie, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 8, 2009
• Grant date: Sep 25, 2012
• Expiry date: Nov 6, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F11/3692
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

End-to-end testing of applications across networks is enabled. To test the application and the infrastructure subsystems, an application server connected to the network contains an application under test. A response simulator is connected to the other end of the network. A test module is accessible to the application and to the simulator and contains a test message to be transmitted to the simulator, and an expected response message from the simulator. The application transmits each test message and compares a response message from the simulator to an expected response message. The simulator obtains the response to each test message from the test module.