METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARALLEL OPERATIONS ON A PLURALITY OF NETWORK SERVERS

• US 20080091775A1
• Filed: 10/11/2007
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: XU, Jun, WANG, ZhePing
• Application Number:
  US11/870,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20080091775A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A method and apparatus for parallel operations on a network software product deployed on a plurality of network servers are disclosed, comprising the steps of: performing an operation on the network software product instance on one network server of the plurality of network servers; generating a first request to the network software product instance on the one network server based on the operation, and equivalent requests to the network software product instances on other network servers of the plurality of network servers; sending the first request to the network software product instance on the one network server, and sending the equivalent requests to the network software product instances on the other network servers; and receiving a response from the network software product instance on the one network server and responses from the network software product instances on the other network servers.

Claims

1. A method for parallel operations on a network software product deployed on a plurality of network servers, comprising the steps of:

performing an operation on an instance of the network software product on one network server of the plurality of network servers;

generating a first request to the network software product instance on the one network server based on the operation, and equivalent requests to the network software product instances on other network servers of the plurality of network servers;

sending the first request to the network software product instance on the one network server, and sending the equivalent requests to the network software product instances on the other network servers; and

receiving a response from the network software product instance on the one network server and responses from the network software product instances on the other network servers.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

creating a separate browser process or client operation process for each network server of the plurality of network servers that needs to be operated on;

wherein, the step of generating comprises;

intercepting the operation, and converting the operation into virtual operations on the network software product instances on the other network servers of the plurality of network servers that need to be operated on; and

providing the operation to the browser process or client operation process corresponding to the one network server, and providing the virtual operations to the browser processes or client operation processes corresponding to the other network servers; and

wherein, the step of sending and the step of receiving are performed respectively by the corresponding browser processes or client operation processes.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of:

presenting a response from the network software product instance on the one network server and responses from the network software product instances on the other network servers.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, further comprising the step of:

comparing the response from the network software product instance on the one network server and the responses from the network software product instances on the other network servers, and the step of presenting is further configured to present the results of the comparison.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of:

specifying the one network server on which the network software product instance is to be operated and the other network servers on which the network software product instances the equivalent requests are to be transmitted to, wherein the step of specifying the other network servers comprises specifying all or any part of the plurality of network servers.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of switching to an asynchronous mode in which the equivalent requests will not be transmitted automatically to the network software product instances on the other network servers, and the step of switching back from the asynchronous mode;

and/or the step of switching the one network server on which the network software product instance is to be operated to any of the other network servers.

7. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the step of comparing comprises generating the display interfaces of the responses from the network software product instances on the network servers, and comparing the images of the display interfaces point by point.

8. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the step of comparing further comprises the steps of:

generating the display interfaces of the responses;

identifying objects and controls in the display interfaces; and

performing the comparison based on the mapping relationships between the objects and controls in the display interfaces.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

performing testing operations using the steps of method 1 for testing a network software product, wherein a plurality of instances of the network software product are deployed on a plurality of network servers.

10. An apparatus for parallel network operations on a network software product deployed on a plurality of network servers, the apparatus comprising:

an interface module through which operations are performed on the network software product instance on one network server of the plurality of network servers;

a generation module for generating a first request to the network software product instance on the one network server based on the operation, and equivalent requests to the network software product instances on the other network servers of the plurality of network servers;

a sending module for sending the first request to the network software product instance on the one network server, and for sending the equivalent requests to the network software product instances on the other network servers; and

a receiving module for receiving a response from the network software product instance on the one network server and responses from the network software product instances on the other network servers.

11. The apparatus as recited in claim 10, wherein the generation module is further configured to:

create a separate browser process or client operation process for each network server of the plurality of network servers that needs to be operated on;

wherein, the generation module generates a first request to the network software product instance on the one network server based on the operation, and equivalent requests to the network software product instances on the other network servers in the plurality of network servers by;

intercepting the operation, and converting the operation into virtual operations on the network software product instances on the other network servers in the plurality of network servers that need to be operated on; and

providing the operation to the browser process or client operation process corresponding to the one network server, and providing the virtual operations to the browser processes or client operation processes corresponding to the other network servers; and

wherein, the sending module and the receiving module are implemented respectively by the corresponding browser processes or client operation processes.

12. The apparatus as recited in claim 10, further comprising a presenting module for presenting a response from the network software product instance on the one network server and responses from the network software product instances on the other network servers.

13. The apparatus as recited in claim 12, further comprising a comparison module for comparing the response from the network software product instance on the one network server and the responses from the network software product instances on the other network servers, and the presenting module is further configured to present the results of the comparison.

14. The apparatus as recited in claim 10, further comprising a configuration module for specifying the one network server on which the network software product instance is to be operated and the other network servers on which the network software product instances the equivalent requests are to be transmitted to, wherein specifying the other network servers comprises specifying all or any part of the plurality of network servers.

15. The apparatus as recited in claim 10, further comprising a switching module for switching to an asynchronous mode in which the equivalent requests will not be transmitted automatically to the network software product instances on the other network servers;

and the switching module is further configured to switch back from the asynchronous mode; and

/or switch the one network server on which the network software product instances is to be operated to any of the other network servers.

16. The apparatus as recited in claim 13, wherein the comparison module is further configured to:

generate the display interfaces of the responses from the network software product instances on the network servers, and compare the images of the display interfaces point by point.

17. The apparatus as recited in claim 13, wherein the comparison module is further configured to:

generate the display interfaces of the responses;

identify objects and controls in the display interfaces; and

perform the comparison based on the mapping relationships between the objects and controls in the display interfaces.

18. The apparatus as recited in claim 10, wherein the apparatus is implemented by any of a network browser plug-in, a separate network browser, a network browser using the IE core, a client requesting apparatus plug-in, or a proxy server.

19. The apparatus as recited in claim 10, wherein the apparatus is a component of a system for testing a network software product, wherein a plurality of instances of the network software product are deployed on a plurality of network servers.

20. A computer program product comprising a computer readable recording medium with computer readable code stored thereon comprising computer executable instructions, said computer executable instructions causing a machine to perform the steps of:

performing an operation on an instance of a network software product on one network server of a plurality of network servers;

generating a first request to the network software product instance on the one network server based on the operation, and equivalent requests to the network software product instances on other network servers of the plurality of network servers;

sending the first request to the network software product instance on the one network server, and sending the equivalent requests to the network software product instances on the other network servers; and

receiving a response from the network software product instance on the one network server and responses from the network software product instances on the other network servers.