Systems and methods for synchronizing software execution across data processing systems and platforms

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9053239-B2
Application number	US-201313844945-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 16, 2013
Priority date	Aug 7, 2003
Publication date	Jun 9, 2015
Grant date	Jun 9, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods for software automation are provided. Software testcases are distributed across multiple data processing systems (equivalently, “machines” or “hosts”) that may collectively include multiple platforms (equivalently, “operating systems”). A testcase may be executed as one or more processes progressing through a sequence of phases, with execution within a phase being asynchronous among processes. Synchronization of the testcase processes across the data processing systems and platforms may be effected by managing an event; the testcase processes block on the event upon completion of the current testcase phase. A testcase phase execution service on each host handles synchronization events. The definition of the testcase may include metadata that identifies the particular phases in sequence, that is phase names, for the testcase; the phase names identifies the phases to the synchronization process that triggers the synchronization events which initiate each succeeding phase of the testcase.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of executing software testing across a plurality of data processing systems respectively executing a plurality of platforms, said plurality of data processing systems being connected by one or more networks, the method comprising:
provide a testcase definition structure that includes a plurality of executable, code testcases each respectively associated with one of the plurality of platforms;
store at least one of the plurality of executable code…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Fisher Jeffrey O

Classifications

• G06F11/3688 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic