METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING MULTIPLE SCRIPTS

• US 20100287532A1
• Filed: 05/07/2010
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VeriSign, Inc.
• Original Assignee: VeriSign, Inc.
• Inventors: SMITH, David D., Colosi, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,527,945 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/110
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3672 Test management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]

Abstract

A method of testing the server implementation of the Domain Name System protocol by using a first body of computer code in a first programming language capable of sending and receiving DNS requests, and a second body of computer readable code in a second programming language capable of generating DNS requests and verifying responses. The second programming language may be tailored to writing code being capable of generating Domain Name System requests and verifying the response thereby allowing the program to be efficiently reconfigured to test different aspects of the server.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of testing the server-side implementation of the Domain Name System protocol comprising:

receiving a first body of computer-readable code in a first computer programming language, the first body being capable of sending Domain Name System requests and receiving responses to the requests;

receiving a second body of computer readable code in a computer programming language tailored to handle Domain Name System requests, the second body being capable of generating Domain Name System requests and verifying whether the response to a particular request is correct;

combining the first body of code and the second body of code, wherein the second body of code is able to access objects and functions in the first body of code, and the first body of code is able to access objects and functions in the second body of code; and

executing the combined code at a computer, causing the computer to;

send a number of Domain Name System requests to a server;

receive a number of responses to the requests; and

verify that the response received for each request contains the correct data.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the second body of computer readable code is executed by a JSR-223 compliant scripting engine.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first body of computer readable code is Java code.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the second body of computer readable code is embedded within the first body of computer readable code.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the first body of computer readable code is executed by a JSR-223 compliant scripting engine and the second body of computer readable code is executed by a JSR-223 compliant scripting engine.

6. A computer-implemented method of testing the server-side implementation of a network protocol comprising:

receiving a first body of computer-readable code in a first computer programming language, the first body being capable of sending requests over the network protocol, and receiving responses to the requests;

receiving a second body of computer-readable code in a second computer programming language, the second body being capable of generating requests complying with the network protocol and verifying whether the response to a particular request is correct;

combining the first body of code and the second body of code such that the second body of code is able to access objects and functions in the first body of code.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the second body of computer readable code is executed by a JSR-223 compliant scripting engine.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the first body of computer readable code is in a first domain-specific scripting language.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein the second body of computer readable code is in a second domain-specific scripting language.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the second domain-specific scripting language is tailored to the particular network protocol.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the first domain-specific scripting language is tailored to sending requests to resolve a domain name, and receiving responses to the requests.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the second domain-specific scripting language is tailored to generating requests to resolve domain names and verifying that the response to the request is correct.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the second domain-specific scripting language is capable of verifying that the response to a request to resolve a domain name is compliant with the DNSSEC protocol.