AUTOMATED TESTING AND QUALIFICATION OF SOFTWARE-BASED, NETWORK SERVICE PRODUCTS

摘要

A computer-based method for qualifying a software application such as a monitoring and/or management network-delivered product. The method includes operating a computer to run a software application with network-delivered services. A qualification computer system is provided with a code generator adapted for processing device qualification data and with a comparator module. The method includes generating a set of event messages with the code generator by processing a set of received or retrieved device qualification data. The event messages are processed with the services or serviceability features of the software application to generate a set of output. With the comparator module, the actual output is compared with expected output for the event messages. Based on the comparison, a qualification report is generated, and the expected output may be output from unit test cases. A code generator may be included that generates one or more native protocol event generators.