Prioritizing resiliency tests of microservices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018039570-A1
Application number	US-201615229958-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 5, 2016
Priority date	Aug 5, 2016
Publication date	Feb 8, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

Techniques for automated resiliency testing systems are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises traversing, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, an application program interface call subgraph of a microservices-based application in a depth first traversal. The computer-implemented method also comprises, during the traversing, performing, by the system, resiliency testing of parent application program interfaces of the application program interface call subgraph according to a systematic resilience testing algorithm that reduces and/or eliminates redundant resiliency testing of parent application program interfaces.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system, comprising:
a memory that stores computer executable components; and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components comprise: a test execution component that:
traverses an application program interface call subgraph of a microservices-based application in a depth first traversal pattern; and
during the traversal, performs resiliency testing of parent application program interfaces of the application program interface call subgraph according to a systematic resilience testing algorithm that reduces redundant resiliency testing of parent application program interfaces.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the test execution component performs the resiliency testing of the parent application program interfaces of the application program interface call subgraph according to the systematic resilience testing algorithm comprising:
during the traversal at a stop at a parent application program interface of the application program interface call subgraph for a current dependent application program interface parent application program interface in the depth first traversal pattern:
performance of a bounded retry pattern test on the parent application program interface for a call to the current dependent application program interface of the parent application program interface in the depth first traversal pattern; and
in response to the bounded retry pattern test on the parent application program interface passing, annotation of the parent application program interface as bounded retry pattern tested for the dependent application program interface to which the bounded retry pattern test was performed.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the test execution component performs the resiliency testing of the parent application program interfaces of the application program interface call subgraph according to the systematic resilience testing algorithm comprising:
during the traversal at a stop at a parent application program interface of the application program interface call subgraph for a current dependent application program interface parent application program interface in the depth first traversal pattern:
performance of a circuit breaker pattern test on the parent application program interface for a call to the current dependent application program interface of the parent application program interface in the depth first traversal pattern; and
in response to the circuit breaker pattern test on the parent application program interface passing, annotation of the parent application program interface as circuit breaker pattern tested for the dependent application program interface to which the circuit breaker pattern test was performed.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the test execution component performs the resiliency testing of the parent application program interfaces of the application program interface call subgraph according to the systematic resilience testing algorithm comprising:
during the traversal at a stop at a parent application program interface of the application program interface call subgraph:
in response to the parent application program interface having multiple dependent application program interfaces, calls to all direct and indirect dependent application program interfaces of the parent application program interface having been annotated tested for a bounded retry pattern and a circuit breaker retry pattern, and the parent application program interface not being annotated as bulkhead pattern tested, performance of a bulkhead pattern test on the parent application program interface and annotation of the parent application program interface as bulkhead pattern tested.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the test execution component performs the resiliency testing of the parent application program interfaces of the application program interface call subgraph according to the systematic resilience testing algorithm comprising:
based on at least one resiliency test pattern, generation of at least one failure scenario for the application program interface call subgraph of subset; and using the at least one failure scenario, test of the application program interface call subgraph for the at least one resiliency test pattern.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the at least one resiliency test pattern is selected from the group consisting of a timeout pattern, a bounded retry pattern, a circuit breaker pattern, and a bulkhead pattern.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the test execution component transmits a recommendation to at least on recipient entity indicating whether to deploy the microservices-based application in a live environment, and wherein the recommendation is determined based on an analysis of results of the resiliency testing.

8 . A computer-implemented method, comprising:
traversing, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, an application program interface call subgraph of a microservices-based application in a depth first traversal pattern; and during the traversing, performing, by the system, resiliency testing of parent application program interfaces of the application program interface call subgraph according to a systematic resilience testing algorithm that reduces redundant resiliency testing of parent application program interfaces.

9 . The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the performing the resiliency testing of the parent application program interfaces of the application program interface call subgraph according to the systematic resilience testing algorithm comprises:
during the traversal at a stop at a parent application program interface of the application program interface call subgraph for a current dependent application program interface parent application program interface in the depth first traversal pattern:
performing a bounded retry pattern test on the parent application program interface for a call to the current dependent application program interface of the parent application program interface in the depth first traversal pattern; and
in response to the bounded retry pattern test on the parent application program interface passing, marking the parent application program interface as bounded retry pattern tested for the dependent application program interface to which the bounded retry pattern test was performed.

10 . The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the performing the resiliency testing of the parent application program interfaces of the application program interface call subgraph according to the systematic resilience testing algorithm comprises:
during the traversal at a stop at a parent application program interface of the application program interface call subgraph for a current dependent application program interface parent application program interface in the depth first traversal pattern:
performing a circuit breaker pattern test on the parent application program interface for a call to the current dependent application program interface of the parent application program interface in the depth first traversal pattern; and
in response to the circuit breaker pattern test on the parent application program interface passing, marking the parent application program interface as circuit breaker pattern tested for the dependent application program interface to which the circuit breaker pattern test was performed.

11 . The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the performing the resiliency testing of the parent application program interfaces of the application program interface call subgraph according to the systematic resilience testing alg

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Rajagopalan Shriram
• Sinha Saurabh

Classifications

• G06F11/3688 Primary

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

• G06F11/3676

  for coverage analysis · CPC title

• G06F11/3636 Primary

  by tracing the execution of the program · CPC title

• G06F11/302

  where the computing system component is a software system · CPC title

• G06F11/3476

  Data logging (G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence) · CPC title