Configurable frame work for testing and analysis of client-side web browser page performance

• US 8,977,739 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2011
• Issued: 03/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Troup, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Dustin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Keller, Michael A
• Application Number:
  US13/100,218
• Publication Number:
  US 20110270975A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,407 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/227, 709/224, 709/220, 709/203, 707/100, 707/959, 726/22, 705/14, 370/310, 370/252, 715/230
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2294 by remote test
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3414 Workload generation, e.g. scripts, playback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet

Abstract

The present invention features methods, computer program products and apparatuses for measuring client-side computer system performance that features identifying one of a plurality of uniform resource locator addresses contained on a server computing system, with each of the uniform resource locator addresses being associated with computing resources. The computing the computing resources associated with any one of the plurality of uniform resource locator addresses being different from the computer resource corresponding to the remaining uniform resource locator addresses. The computing resources are accessible through a web-browser that accesses the same the computing resources associated with the one of the plurality of uniform resource locator addresses. Measured are metrics of the interactions between the web-browser and the computing resources associated with the one of the plurality of uniform resource locator addresses. It is determined whether the metrics satisfy pre-determined operational requirements.

Claims

1. A method of measuring client-side computer system performance, said method comprising:

identifying, by a configurable test framework in communication with a database architecture and the client-side computer system of a computer network, a test configuration file, the test configuration file including environmental configuration information and test configuration data, the test configuration data including a name for a data access object and a view for a data access object and the test configuration data identifying a first uniform resource locator address of a plurality of uniform resource locator addresses contained on a server computing system;

creating, by the configurable test framework, an instance of the data access object using the test configuration data;

constructing, by the configurable test framework, the first uniform resource locator address for viewing the instance of the object at the view specified by the test configuration data;

establishing, by the configurable test framework, an emulation of operation of the computer network including the client-side computer system and the database architecture based on the environmental configuration information, the emulation comprising computer resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address, the computing resources being allocated based on the environmental configuration information, with the computing resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address being different from computer resources corresponding to the remaining uniform resource locator addresses;

accessing, with a web-browser of the emulation, the computing resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address constructed for viewing the instance of the object at the specified view;

measuring operational characteristics between said web-browser and the computing resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address, wherein the operational characteristics include a load time associated with the computing resources; and

determining, utilizing instructions executed by the web-browser, whether said operational characteristic satisfy pre-determined operational requirements, defining measured results.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 further including storing said measured results on said server computing system, with the computing resources being stored on said computer system, with said web-browser being run on said server computing system.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 further including ascertain said operational characteristics failed to satisfy said pre-determined operational requirements and transmitting an electronic message to a pre-defined address including information corresponding to said results.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said computer resources further includes web page content and accessing further includes said web-browser programmatically interacting with said web page content.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said computer resources further includes web page content and accessing further includes rendering perceivable stimuli in said web browser in response to interacting with said web page content, with measuring further including determining a time for said web browser to render said perceivable stimuli.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, the test configuration data comprising metadata stored on said server computing system, wherein identifying further includes generating, with a web application, the first uniform resource locator address from the metadata.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the emulation comprises a desired population for a database of the database architecture.

8. The method of claim 1, the database architecture comprising a multi-tenant database system, wherein the emulation comprises a desired configuration for an application server of the multi-tenant database system.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein:

measuring the operational characteristics comprises gathering performance metrics on a generated page that represents the specified view of the object.

17. A computer product of the type comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium that contains a program to measure client-side computer system performance by performing the method of claim 1.

10. A computer product of the type comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium that contains a program to measure client-side computer system performance said method comprising:

computer code that identifies a test configuration file, the test configuration file including environmental configuration information and test configuration data, the test configuration data including a name for a data access object and a view for a data access object and the test configuration data identifying a first uniform resource locator address of a plurality of uniform resource locator addresses contained on a server computing system;

computer code that creates an instance of the data access object using the test configuration data;

computer code that constructs the first uniform resource locator address for viewing the instance of the object at the view specified by the test configuration data;

computer code that establishes an emulation of operation of a computer network including the client-side computer system and a database architecture based on the environmental configuration information, the emulation comprising computing resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address, the computing resources being allocated based on the environmental configuration information, with the computing resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address being different from computer resources corresponding to the remaining uniform resource locator addresses;

computer code that accesses, with a web-browser of the emulation, the computing resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address constructed for viewing the instance of the object at the specified view;

computer code to measure operational characteristics between said web-browser and the computing resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address, wherein the operational characteristics include a load time associated with the computing resources; and

computer code, executable by the web-browser, to determine whether said operational characteristics satisfy pre-determined operational requirements, defining measured results.

11. The computer product as recited in claim 10 further including computer code to store said measured results on said server computing system, with the computing resources being stored on said computer system, with said web-browser being run on said server computing system.

12. The computer product as recited in claim 10 further including computer code to ascertain that said operational characteristics failed to satisfy said pre-determined operational requirements and transmit an electronic message to a pre-defined address including information corresponding to said results.

13. The computer program product as recited in claim 10 wherein said computer resources further includes web page content and said computer code to access further includes a subroutine to have said web-browser programmatically interact with said web page content.

14. An apparatus to measuring client-side computer system performance, said method comprising:

a processor;

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of;

identifying a test configuration file, the test configuration file including environmental configuration information and test configuration data, the test configuration data including a name for a data access object and a view for a data access object and the test configuration data identifying a first uniform resource locator address of a plurality of uniform resource locator addresses contained on a server computing system;

creating an instance of the data access object using the test configuration data;

constructing the first uniform resource locator address for viewing the instance of the object at the view specified by the test configuration data;

establishing an emulation of operation of the computer network including the client-side computer system and the database architecture based on the environmental configuration information, the emulation comprising computer resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address, the computing resources being allocated based on the environmental configuration information, with the computing resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address being different from computer resources corresponding to the remaining uniform resource locator addresses;

accessing, with a web-browser of the emulation, the computing resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address constructed for viewing the instance of the object at the specified view;

measuring, utilizing instructions executed by the web-browser, operational characteristics between said web-browser and the computing resources associated with the first uniform resource locator address, wherein the operational characteristics include a load time associated with the computing resources; and

determining whether said operational characteristics satisfy pre-determined operational requirements, defining measured results.

15. The apparatus as recited in claim 14 where said sequence of instructions further includes additional instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out a step of storing said measured results on said server computing system, with the computing resources being stored on said computer system.

16. The apparatus as recited in claim 14 where said sequence of instructions further includes additional instruction, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out a step of ascertaining that said operational characteristics failed to satisfy said pre-determined operational requirements and transmitting an electronic message to a pre-defined address including information corresponding to said results.