ON-DEMAND DATABASE SERVICE SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VALIDATING A DEVELOPED APPLICATION

• US 20160011867A1
• Filed: 09/22/2015
• Published: 01/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Weissman, Craig
• Granted Patent: US 10,481,903 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for validating a developed application. These mechanisms and methods for providing such validation can enable embodiments to ensure that new versions of developed applications will operate in the same application environment of a previous version. The ability of embodiments to provide such validation may lead to an improved application migration development/runtime framework, etc.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a developed application, including a definition of the developed application, by a system;

validating the developed application, by;

determining, by the system, that a result of testing the developed application does not include errors,

determining, by the system, that the developed application is associated with a version identifier for the developed application,

determining, by the system, that the developed application complies with a limit related to storage resources used by the developed application,

wherein the validating is based on one or more dependencies of the developed application being specified in the definition of the developed application; and

making, by the system, the developed application available to one or more end users in response to the validation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the developed application is received from a user of the system.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user is a developer of the developed application.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the developed application is received by the user uploading the developed application to the system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving, the validating, and the making the developed application available are performed by the system for each of a plurality of developed applications.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of developed applications are received by the system from a plurality of developers.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the validating is performed automatically in response to receipt of the developed application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein making, by the system, the developed application available to the one or more end users in response to the validation includes:

making, by the system, the developed application available for download by the one or more end users.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after making, by the system, the developed application available to the one or more end users, receiving, by the system, an update to the developed application; and

making, by the system, the update available to the one or more end users.

10. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product including code adapted to be executed by a computer to perform a method comprising:

receiving a developed application, including a definition of the developed application, by a system;

validating the developed application, by;

determining, by the system, that a result of testing the developed application does not include errors,

determining, by the system, that the developed application is associated with a version identifier for the developed application,

determining, by the system, that the developed application complies with a limit related to storage resources used by the developed application,

wherein the validating is based on one or more dependencies of the developed application being specified in the definition of the developed application; and

making, by the system, the developed application available to one or more end users in response to the validation.

11. A system, comprising:

a processor for;

receiving a developed application, including a definition of the developed application, by the system;

validating the developed application, by;

determining, by the system, that a result of testing the developed application does not include errors,

determining, by the system, that the developed application is associated with a version identifier for the developed application,

determining, by the system, that the developed application complies with a limit related to storage resources used by the developed application,

wherein the validating is based on one or more dependencies of the developed application being specified in the definition of the developed application; and

making, by the system, the developed application available to one or more end users in response to the validation.