TEST AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED HETEROGENOUS ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20190324897A1
• Filed: 04/20/2018
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Subramanian, Srininvasan, Jain, Nivedita, RJ, Prasanth, Seenivasan, Saravanan, Venugopalan, Ganeshkumar, Reddy, Gundala Rakesh Kumar
• Granted Patent: US 11,314,627 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3684 for test design, e.g. generating new test cases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites

Abstract

Automated testing is performed in a distributed environment having computer systems executing software based on heterogenous application stacks. The computer systems are connected via the network to a service platform. A method provides for executing a function directed to a target system of the computer systems, the function resulting in network requests being sent from the service platform to the target system. The method further includes recording, at the service platform, the network requests produced by the executed function. The method further includes generating a service corresponding to the function based on the recorded network requests. The method further includes executing a test scenario which uses the generated service corresponding to the function to produce test requests.

Claims

1. A method of performing automated testing in a distributed environment having heterogeneous application stacks, the environment having a plurality of computer systems interconnected via a network, each of the computer systems executing software based on an application stack, the computer systems being connected via the network to a service platform, the method comprising:

executing a function directed to a target system of the computer systems, the function resulting in network requests being sent from the service platform to the target system;

recording, at the service platform, the network requests produced by the executed function;

generating a service corresponding to the function based on the recorded network requests; and

executing a test scenario which uses the generated service corresponding to the function to produce test requests.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the service comprises:

extracting network requests relating to the function from the recorded network requests;

determining a flow mapping for the function, the flow mapping including a sequence of requests based on the extracted network requests;

determining context parameters for the function based on the extracted network requests; and

creating a service definition based on the flow mapping and the context parameters.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the context parameters comprise at least one of cookie and session parameters.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the flow mapping comprises timing parameters for the sequence of requests.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising storing the service definition in a registry.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the test scenario is created via a user interface which is configured to allow one or more functional elements, which correspond to service definitions stored in the registry, to be arranged to form the test scenario.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the executing of the test scenario comprises sending the test requests to a test environment comprising a plurality of virtual machines.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the executing of the test scenario comprises binding test input data to the functional elements.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the network requests and the test requests comprise HTTP requests.

10. An automation service platform for performing automated testing in a distributed environment having heterogeneous application stacks, the environment having a plurality of computer systems interconnected via a network, each of the computer systems executing software based on an application stack, the computer systems being connected via the network to the service platform, the service platform comprising a processor and memory having code to cause the processor to perform:

executing a function directed to a target system of the computer systems, the function resulting in network requests being sent from the service platform to the target system;

recording, at the service platform, the network requests produced by the executed function;

generating a service corresponding to the function based on the recorded network requests; and

executing a test scenario which uses the generated service corresponding to the function to produce test requests.

11. The service platform of claim 10, wherein the generating of the service comprises:

extracting network requests relating to the function from the recorded network requests;

determining a flow mapping for the function, the flow mapping including a sequence of requests based on the extracted network requests;

determining context parameters for the function based on the extracted network requests; and

creating a service definition based on the flow mapping and the context parameters.

12. The service platform of claim 11, wherein the context parameters comprise at least one of cookie and session parameters.

13. The service platform of claim 11, wherein the flow mapping comprises timing parameters for the sequence of requests.

14. The service platform of claim 11, further comprising storing the service definition in a registry.

15. The service platform of claim 14, wherein the test scenario is created via a user interface which is configured to allow one or more functional elements, which correspond to service definitions stored in the registry, to be arranged to form the test scenario.

16. The service platform of claim 10, wherein the executing of the test scenario comprises sending the test requests to a test environment comprising a plurality of virtual machines.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions executed by at least one processor of a computer system having memory, the medium comprising instructions for causing the at least one processor to perform a method of automated testing in a distributed environment having heterogeneous application stacks, the environment having a plurality of computer systems interconnected via a network, each of the computer systems executing software based on an application stack, the computer systems being connected via the network to a service platform, the method comprising:

executing a function directed to a target system of the computer systems, the function resulting in network requests being sent from the service platform to the target system;

recording, at the service platform, the network requests produced by the executed function;

generating a service corresponding to the function based on the recorded network requests; and

executing a test scenario which uses the generated service corresponding to the function to produce test requests.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the generating of the service comprises:

extracting network requests relating to the function from the recorded network requests;

determining a flow mapping for the function, the flow mapping including a sequence of requests based on the extracted network requests;

determining context parameters for the function based on the extracted network requests; and

creating a service definition based on the flow mapping and the context parameters.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the method further comprises storing the service definition in a registry.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the test scenario is created via a user interface which is configured to allow one or more functional elements, which correspond to service definitions stored in the registry, to be arranged to form the test scenario.