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System and method for testing applications at the business layer

  • US 7,454,660 B1
  • Filed: 10/13/2003
  • Issued: 11/18/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for testing a multi-tier application having a presentation layer, a business layer, and a third layer for storing information associated with the multi-tier application, wherein the method comprises:

  • sending known test inputs to a first instance of the multi-tier application;

    receiving output from the first instance of the multi-tier application responsive to the known test inputs, the output in a geographic-specific and linguistic specific format;

    converting the output into a geographic-neutral and linguistic-neutral format;

    establishing predicted output for the multi-tier application based on the converted output;

    generating a test script for the multi-tier application by associating the predicted output with the known test inputs; and

    storing the test script in a geographic-neutral and linguistic-neutral format based on a predefined Extensible Markup Language (“

    XML”

    ) schema, wherein the test script is to send the known test inputs in the geographic-neutral and linguistic-neutral format to the business layer of a second instance of the multi-tier application, bypassing the presentation layer, and compare results from the second instance of the multi-tier application with the predicted output.

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