US 7,734,763 B2Granted

Application for testing the availability of software components

AssigneeSap SE

InventorsJanko Budzisch, Pavel Kojevnikov, Stephen Pfeiffer

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Abstract

An Information Systems (IS) monitoring approach is described that is capable of monitoring and displaying the availability of various software components, including “foundational” operation features of the IS infrastructure. A further capability is that the availability of the individual software components upon which a specific business logic process depends may each be individually and continuously checked, in a combined fashion that is referenced to the specific business logic process, so that the status of the business logic process itself (e.g., operable or non-operable) can be continuously determined. Moreover, operability or non-operability can be established over a wide range of different business logic processes on a process by process basis. In this manner, an IS administrator can keep abreast of the status of the IS infrastructure and its ability to execute business logic processes dependent on lower level software.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

reading program code from memory and processing said program code with one or more processors to perform the following:
executing a testing scenario, said executing of said testing scenario including repeatedly receiving request messages from an entity over a network at a testing application on a server or servlet engine, said testing application being a software program that tests availability of other software programs and/or components, at least one of said software components including a login procedure for the at least one of said software components availability test, said request messages identifying a set of software components being:
a) servable and/or invokable by said server or servlet engine;
b) associated with said testing scenario;
and, c) used by a same business logic process within an information system infrastructure, and, at least one of said request messages providing a respective user identification for the at least one software components including the login procedure for the at least one of said software components availability test;
and,
said executing of said testing scenario comprising, in response to each of said request messages:
said testing application testing said set of software components for availability and
preparing and sending onto said network a response message to report, to the entity, availability or unavailability of said set of software components, said entity having sent said response message's corresponding request message.

6 more elements

A computing system comprising:

one or more processors configured to perform operation comprising:
executing a testing scenario, said executing of said testing scenario including repeatedly receiving request messages from an entity over a network at a testing application on a server or servlet engine, said testing application being a software program that tests availability of other software programs and/or components, at least one of said software components including a login procedure for the at least one of said software components availability test, said request messages identifying a set of software components being:
a) servable and/or invokable by said server or servlet engine;
b) associated with said testing scenario;
and, c) used by a same business logic process within an information system infrastructure, and, at least one of said request messages providing a respective user identification for the at least one software components including the login procedure for the at least one of said software components availability test;
and,
said executing of said testing scenario comprising, in response to each of said request messages:
said testing application testing said set of software components for availability and
preparing and sending onto said network a response message to report, to the entity, availability or unavailability of said set of software components, said entity having sent said response message's corresponding request message.

6 more elements

A machine readable medium storing instructions which when executed by one or more processors to perform a method, said method comprising:

executing a testing scenario, said executing of said testing scenario including repeatedly receiving request messages from an entity over a network at a testing application on a server or servlet engine, said testing application being a software program that tests availability of other software programs and/or components, at least one of said software components including a login procedure for the at least one of said software components availability test, said request messages identifying a set of software components being:
a) servable and/or invokable by said server or servlet engine;
b) associated with said testing scenario;
and, c) used by a same business logic process within an information system infrastructure, and, at least one of said request messages providing a respective user identification for the at least one software components including the login procedure for the at least one of said software components availability test;
and,
said executing of said testing scenario comprising, in response to each of said request messages:
said testing application testing said set of software components for availability and
preparing and sending onto said network a response message to report, to the entity, availability or unavailability of said set of software components, said entity having sent said response message's corresponding request message.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/749,854Filed 30 Dec 2003 · us provisional application
Priority: 24 Oct 2003
Published: US 2007/0299962 A127 Dec 2007
Granted: 8 Jun 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 11/3668
Prevention of errors by analysis, debugging or testing of software: testing of software
H04L 67/025
Based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]: for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
G06F
Computing and data processing
H04L
Digital communication