Method and system for testing provisioning and interoperability of computer system services

• US 20040128651A1
• Filed: 12/31/2002
• Published: 07/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Lau, Michael
• Application Number:
  US10/334,286
• Publication Number:
  US 20040128651A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/124
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software

Abstract

A method for testing software and hardware components or systems for services provisioning or interoperability with hardware and software of a computer system. A testing model is built for the system including representations of the proposed service or software component, the hardware and software components of the computer system, and a provisioning or interoperability test. The test is applied to the representation of the proposed software, hardware, or system component and a report is generated providing results of the application of the test indicating applied tests and providing a visual cue of the severity of any interference, provisioning level, or non-interoperability. The generating includes creating new software, hardware, or system parameters including a level of optimization of a determined provisioning problem. The testing model is a jagged array with a row provided for proposed services or software component with row elements storing operating parameters of software, hardware, or system.

Claims

1. A computer-based method for testing provisioning of computing services with hardware and software components of a computer system, comprising:

building a testing model of a computer system including a representation of a proposed service component, a representation of software components of the computer system, and a representation of hardware components of the computer system and including a representation of a services provisioning tests;

applying the services provisioning test to the representation of the proposed software and hardware component; and

generating a report including results of the applying of the services provisioning test.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation of the proposed service component includes operating parameters for the proposed software component.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation of the proposed service component includes operating parameters for the proposed hardware component.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the testing model comprises a jagged array, and further wherein the representation of the proposed service component comprises an element or a row of the jagged array.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein operating parameters for the proposed service component are stored in an element or elements of the jagged array row.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the representation of the services provisioning test comprises another row of the jagged array.

7. The method of claim 6, further including storing the results of the applying into the jagged array.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the storing includes modifying the test row of the jagged array to provide visual cues of the results of the applying.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating includes creating a report that provides visual indicators of the results of the applying including a level of severity of a determined provisioning problem for the proposed service component.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating includes creating new software parameters or indicators of the applying including a level of optimization of a determined provisioning problem for the proposed service component.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating includes creating new hardware parameters or indicators of the applying including a level of optimization of a determined provisioning problem for the proposed service component.

12. A computer-based method for testing software component interoperability with hardware and software components of a computer system, comprising:

building a testing model of a computer system including a representation of a proposed software component, a representation of software components of the computer system, and a representation of hardware components of the computer system and including a representation of an interoperability test;

applying the interoperability test to the representation of the proposed software component; and

generating a report including results of the applying of the interoperability test.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the representation of the proposed software component includes operating parameters for the proposed software component.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the representation of the proposed software component includes operating parameters for the proposed hardware component.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the testing model comprises a jagged array, and further wherein the representation of the proposed software component comprises a row of the jagged array.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein operating parameters for the proposed software component are stored in elements of the jagged array row.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the representation of the interoperability test comprises another row of the jagged array.

18. The method of claim 17, further including storing the results of the applying into the jagged array.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the storing includes modifying the test row of the jagged array to provide visual cues of the results of the applying.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating includes creating a report that provides visual indicators of the results of the applying including a level of severity of a determined interoperability problem for the proposed software component.

21. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating includes creating new software parameters or indicators of the applying including a level of optimization of a determined interoperability problem for the proposed software component.

22. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating includes creating new hardware parameters or indicators of the applying including a level of optimization of a determined interoperability problem for the proposed software component.

23. A computer-based method for testing provisioning of a service component within a computer system, comprising:

linking a testing system having a remote testing agent to a digital communications network;

receiving a request for services provisioning testing on a computer system;

determining a set of operating parameters for the service component;

collecting hardware and software parameters for the computing system;

developing provisioning tests based on the collected hardware and software parameters;

applying the provisioning tests to the operating parameters of the service component; and

generating a provisioning report based on the applying of the tests.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the developing includes utilizing at least a portion of the collected hardware and software parameters as testing parameters.

25. The method of claim 24, further including building a testing model including representations of the provisioning tests and the service component including the operating parameters.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the testing model comprises a jagged array and the representation of the service component includes a row in the jagged array with operating parameters stored in row elements.

27. The method of claim 26, further including storing results of the applying into the jagged array.

28. The method of claim 23, wherein the provisioning report includes visual indicators of results of the applying including levels of provisioning success.

29. The method of claim 23, wherein the provisioning report includes creating new hardware or software parameters or indicators of the applying including a level of optimization of a determined provisioning problem.

30. A computer-based method for testing operability of a software component within a computer system, comprising:

linking a testing system having a remote testing agent to a digital communications network;

receiving a request for interoperability testing for a software component proposed to be installed on a computing system;

determining a set of operating parameters for the software component;

collecting hardware and software parameters for the computing system;

developing interoperability tests based on the collected hardware and software parameters;

applying the interoperability tests to the operating parameters of the software component; and

generating an interoperability report based on the applying of the tests.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the developing includes utilizing at least a portion of the collected hardware and software parameters as testing parameters.

32. The method of claim 31, further including building a testing model including representations of the interoperability tests and the software component including the operating parameters.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the testing model comprises a jagged array and the representation of the software component includes a row in the jagged array with operating parameters stored in row elements.

34. The method of claim 33, further including storing results of the applying into the jagged array.

35. The method of claim 30, wherein the interoperability report includes visual indicators of results of the applying including levels of interoperability.

36. The method of claim 30, wherein the interoperability report includes creating new hardware or software parameters or indicators of the applying including a level of optimization of a determined interoperability problem.

37. A software testing system for determining software interoperability, comprising:

means for building a testing model of a computer system including a representation of a proposed software component, a representation of software components of the computer system, and a representation of hardware components of the computer system and including a representation of an interoperability test;

means for applying the interoperability test to the representation of the proposed software component and

means for generating a report including results of the applying of the interoperability test.

38. The system of claim 37, wherein the testing model comprises a jagged array, and further wherein the representation of the proposed software component comprises a row of the jagged array.

39. The system of claim 38, further including means for storing the testing model and for storing the results of the applying in the jagged array.

40. The system of claim 37, wherein the generating means includes means for creating a report that provides visual indicators of the results of the applying including a level of severity of a determined interoperability problem for the proposed software component.

41. The method of claim 37, wherein the generating includes means for creating new hardware or software parameters or indicators of the applying including a level of optimization of a determined interoperability problem.

42. A computer-based method for testing user rights and access within a computer system for provisioning of computing services with hardware and software components of a computer system, comprising:

building a testing model of a plurality of users and their settings including a representation of a proposed service component, a representation of software components of the computer system, and a representation of hardware components of the computer system and including a representation of a user services provisioning tests;

applying the user services provisioning test to the representation of the proposed software and hardware component; and

generating a report including results of the applying of the user services provisioning test.

43. The method of claim 42, wherein the representation of the proposed user service component includes operating parameters for the proposed software component.

44. The method of claim 42, wherein the representation of the proposed user service component includes operating parameters for the proposed hardware component.

45. The method of claim 42, wherein the user services testing model comprises a jagged array, and further wherein the representation of the proposed user service component comprises an element or a row of the jagged array.

46. The method of claim 45, wherein operating parameters for the proposed user service component are stored in an element or elements of the jagged array row.

47. The method of claim 46, wherein the representation of the user services provisioning test comprises another row of the jagged array.

48. The method of claim 47, further including storing the results of applying into the jagged array.

49. The method of claim 48, wherein the storing includes modifying the test row of the jagged array to provide visual cues of the results of the applying.

50. The method of claim 42, wherein the generating includes creating a report that provides visual indicators of the results of the applying including a level of severity of a determined user services provisioning problem for the proposed user service component.

51. The method of claim 42, wherein the generating includes creating new user settings of the applying including a level of optimization of a determined user services provisioning problem for the proposed user service component.

52. The method of claim 42, wherein the generating includes creating new hardware or software parameters or indicators of the applying including a level of optimization of a determined user services provisioning problem for the proposed user service component.