US 2020/0004664 A1Published application

Automatic mock enablement in a multi-module software system

AssigneeLendingClub Corporation

InventorsEddie Gonzales, Somesh Benchalli, Phani Pradeep Benarji Kommana, Ali Nazari

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Abstract

Embodiments allow a mock-enabled software module to access a store of mock output data. Sets of mock output values (“SMOVs”), stored within the mock output store, are mapped to one or more key input values. When input sent to a mock-enabled software module includes one or more key input values that map to a given SMOV, the SMOV is included in a mock response from a target module of the given SMOV. When a set of input values, sent to a mock-enabled software module, does not include key input values that map to a SMOV, the mock-enabled module produces output without triggering any mock response. The mock output store may contain one or more replacement templates that are used to replace one or more mock output values, in a mock response, with one or more corresponding input values from the set of input values received by the triggering module.

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Dependent claims

A method for providing mock output values, to a consumer software module of a multi-module system, as if the mock output values were produced by a mock-enabled software module of the multi-module system, comprising:

before a first set of input values are processed, as input, by a first mock-enabled software module of a series of one or more mock-enabled software modules, using an input-value-to-mock-value mapping to determine whether one or more values, of the first set of input values, are mapped to any set of mock output values;
wherein the input-value-to-mock-value mapping maps input values to sets of mock output values;
in response to detecting that one or more values, of the first set of input values, are mapped to a particular set of mock output values, causing a particular mock-enabled software module, of the series of one or more mock-enabled software modules, to send the particular set of mock output values to the consumer software module as output from the particular mock-enabled software module;
the consumer software module producing a first set of output values based, at least in part, on the consumer software module consuming the particular set of mock output values;
before a second set of input values are processed, as input, by the first mock-enabled software module, of the series of one or more mock-enabled software modules, using the input-value-to-mock-value mapping to determine whether one or more values, of the second set of input values, are mapped to any set of mock output values;
in response to detecting that no set of mock output values is mapped to values of the second set of input values, the first mock-enabled software module producing a second set of output values based, at least in part, on the first mock-enabled software module consuming the second set of input values;
and
another software module, of the multi-module system, producing a third set of output values based, at least in part, on the other software module consuming the second set of output values;
wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause providing mock output values, to a consumer software module of a multi-module system, as if the mock output values were produced by a mock-enabled software module of the multi-module system, comprising:

before a first set of input values are processed, as input, by a first mock-enabled software module of a series of one or more mock-enabled software modules, using an input-value-to-mock-value mapping to determine whether one or more values, of the first set of input values, are mapped to any set of mock output values;
wherein the input-value-to-mock-value mapping maps input values to sets of mock output values;
in response to detecting that one or more values, of the first set of input values, are mapped to a particular set of mock output values, causing a particular mock-enabled software module, of the series of one or more mock-enabled software modules, to send the particular set of mock output values to the consumer software module as output from the particular mock-enabled software module;
the consumer software module producing a first set of output values based, at least in part, on the consumer software module consuming the particular set of mock output values;
before a second set of input values are processed, as input, by the first mock-enabled software module, of the series of one or more mock-enabled software modules, using the input-value-to-mock-value mapping to determine whether one or more values, of the second set of input values, are mapped to any set of mock output values;
in response to detecting that no set of mock output values is mapped to values of the second set of input values, the first mock-enabled software module producing a second set of output values based, at least in part, on the first mock-enabled software module consuming the second set of input values;
and
another software module, of the multi-module system, producing a third set of output values based, at least in part, on the other software module consuming the second set of output values.

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