Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jeff Comstock

Ashok Srinivasan

Vinod Kumar

David Pokluda

Edvardas V Budrys

A framework and method for managing business data transactions resides outside individual business systems and allows creation of a policy for classification of each data element for all data schema in transit between processes. The framework allows identification of data sets by document type and endpoint, so that individual data elements of a schema can be validated, and edited or deleted if necessary, during their transit between endpoints, such as between trading partners. Because the policy is built and enforced outside the individual endpoint business systems, expensive customizations within each transactional system are avoided.

Policy-based management of data elements in a document schema for data transactions

A test framework suited for use with distributed business applications allows developers to specify a test, or suite of tests, to be easily selected and executed. Execution of a test suite instantiates objects such as a test runner and a test result object that set up, activate, and observe a test cycle. Results may be forwarded to a variety of special-purpose listeners which evaluate variable and state changes and ultimately determine pass/fail metrics. Results from profilers may be used to determine code coverage for each of the tests performed by the suite. APIs allow integration of the test framework with other development processes such as a be source code management system. In one embodiment, new or changed source code may not be checked in until successfully passing a test cycle.

Test automation for business applications

For each of a set of business application classes on an application server, a web service class consisting of a separate web service method for each of a set of actions is generated. Each web service method contains a call to an interface web service method stored on a web server. The interface web service method is capable of calling a method on the application server. Once generated, the web service classes are compiled into an assembly and are stored on the web server.

Generating and binding web services to application components

A security model is provided that controls access to a secured application. Under the security model, a submitting user is authenticated when the user submits a message to have the application perform an action. The application is then used to determine if the submitting user is authorized to submit messages on behalf of a source endpoint stored in the message. A method in the application is then invoked to perform the action while impersonating a source endpoint user stored in the message.

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