Continuous integration testing for network-based applications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10664388-B2
Application number	US-201715622697-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 14, 2017
Priority date	Jun 14, 2017
Publication date	May 26, 2020
Grant date	May 26, 2020

Abstract

A system for testing a network-based application has a continuous integration (CI) service that performs CI testing of a server application that is being developed to support a client application, such as a client application that will be used on a wireless communication device. The CI service detects server source code changes and in response rebuilds the server application and deploys it to a test server. In addition, the client application is installed and executed on one or more wireless communication devices, so that the client application communicates with the test server using a wireless communications network. Tests of the client application are performed as it executes on the devices, and results are reported to the CI service. The CI service reports any errors that occurred during testing of either the server application or the client application.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for development of a server application to support a client application, the system comprising:
multiple cellular communication devices provisioned to operate with a cellular communications network, the cellular communication devices being configured to run the client application, wherein the client application communicates with the server application through the cellular communications network;
a continuous integration service stored in a memory and configured to perform actions comprising:
accessing a source code repository having server source code for the server application, wherein developers commit the server source code to the source code repository;
building the server application based at least in part on the server source code;
deploying the server application for execution by a test server;
after deploying the server application, initiating a test of the server application on the test server;
receiving data indicating a failure of a test of the client application on at least one of the cellular communication devices; and
communicating the failure of the test of the client application to at least one of the developers that committed the server source code to the source code repository, wherein an indication of the failure of the test of the client application specifies which commit of the server source code the failure of the test of the client application is associated with.

2. The system of claim 1 , the actions further comprising:
building the client application based at least in part on client source code; and
initiating the test of the client application after deploying the server application.

3. The system of claim 1 , the actions further comprising, after deploying the server application, initiating the test of the client application.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the cellular communication devices comprise one or more of:
devices that are currently available for purchase by consumers;
devices that are in development for future release to consumers; or
devices that were previously available for purchase by consumers but that are no longer available for purchase by consumers.

5. The system of claim 1 , further comprising one or more test controllers configured to:
receive the client application from the continuous integration service;
perform the test of the client application on the cellular communication devices; and
send the data indicating the failure to the continuous integration service.

6. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
one or more test controllers configured to perform the test of the client application on the cellular communication devices;
wherein the one or more test controllers are configured to communicate with the cellular communication devices through respective wired communication interfaces of the cellular communication devices.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein:
the test controller is geographically remote from the continuous integration service; and
the data is received from the test controller via a wide-area network.

8. A method for development of a server application to support a client application, the method comprising:
accessing a source code repository having server source code for the server application, wherein one or more developers commit the server source code to the source code repository;
after a source code commit to the source code repository, building the server application based at least in part on the server source code;
deploying the server application for execution by a test server;
initiating a test of the server application on the test server after deploying the server application;
initiating a test of the client application on a cellular communication device that is provisioned to operate with a cellular communications network, wherein the client application communicates with the server application through the cellular communications network;
determining that there has been a failure of the test of the client application;
providing a communication of the failure of the client application to at least one of the one or more developers that committed the server source code to the source code repository; and
receiving a commit from the one or more developers of an updated version of the server source code subsequent to providing the communication of the failure of the test of the client application.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the communication indicates that the failure was associated with the source code commit.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein building the server application is in response to the source code commit.

11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising, after deploying the server application, causing the cellular communication device to execute the client application.

12. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
causing the cellular communication device to obtain the client application from a network-based application market; and
after deploying the server application, causing the cellular communication device to execute the client application.

13. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
building the client application based at least in part on client source code; and
causing the cellular communication device to execute the client application.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the cellular communication device comprises:
a device that is currently available for purchase by consumers;
a device that is in development for future release to consumers; or
a device that was previously available for purchase by consumers but that is no longer available for purchase by consumers.

15. The method of claim 8 , further comprising communicating with the cellular communication device through a wired interface of the cellular communication device.

16. The method of claim 8 , wherein determining that there has been a failure of the test of the client application comprises receiving data from a test controller associated with the cellular communication device.

17. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform actions comprising:
after a commit of server source code by a developer of the commit of the server source code, building a server application based at least in part on the server source code;
deploying the server application for execution by a test server;
initiating a test of the server application on the test server after deploying the server application;
initiating a test of a client application on a client device that is configured to communicate through a wireless communications network, wherein the client application communicates with the server application through the wireless communications network;
determining that there has been a failure of the test of the client application; and
communicating the failure of the client application to the developer that committed the commit of the server source code, wherein an indication of the failure specifies which commit of the server source code the failure of the client application is associated with.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 17 , the actions further comprising communicating to the developer that the failure was in response to the commit of the server source code.

19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 17 , the actions further comprising, after deploying the server application, causing the clie

Assignees

• T Mobile Usa Inc

Inventors

• Mitchell Michael J
• Myron Peter P
• Kwong Samson Kim-Sun

Classifications

• G06F11/3688 Primary

  for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites · CPC title

• G06F8/71

  Version control (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57); Configuration management · CPC title

• G06F11/3664

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F8/60 Primary

  Software deployment · CPC title

• G06F11/3698

  Environments for analysis, debugging or testing of software · CPC title