Systems and/or methods for testing client reactions to simulated disruptions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9009683-B2
Application number	US-201213432462-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2012
Priority date	Mar 28, 2012
Publication date	Apr 14, 2015
Grant date	Apr 14, 2015

Abstract

Certain example embodiments described herein relate to approaches for testing client reactions to simulated disruptions in a real production environment that leverages the publish/subscribe messaging model (or one of its variants), optionally in connection with JMS messages and/or triggers. In certain example embodiments, a test driver reads a script that includes an instruction flow that brings down brokers in a broker cluster similar to (or in a manner as inflicted by) broker crashes (e.g., where a process or application does not have a chance to save its state or data before it is terminated), and/or broker stop/start events, e.g., to simulate the problems and determine whether the client application remains intact in the presence of errors. The simulations may leverage hardware and/or software means for intentionally causing disruptions in a live production environment. Thus, it advantageously becomes possible to test an application integration's client-side failover and/or load-balancing implementations.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A messaging system, comprising:
a broker cluster including a plurality of brokers configured to relay messages from at least one publisher to at least one subscriber over one or more networked cluster connections in accordance with a predefined publish/subscribe model related policy;
a test driver configured to receive instructions regarding errors to be simulated in association with one or more components in the messaging system;
a simulator configured…

Assignees

• Siddalingesh
• Software Ag

Inventors

• Siddalingesh

Classifications

• G06F11/3672 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic