International Business Machines Corporation

John Thomas Chamberlain

Charles Dumont

Edward M Batchelder

Joann Jordan

Andrew J Wharton

Andrew J Warton

The present invention is a system for efficiently generating test cases characterized by a linear range of integral values. A software testing tool which has been configured to generate test cases characterized by a linear range of integral values in accordance with the present invention can include a user interface coupled to a test case generator. The test case generator can be configured for range bounding for a range of integral values in a software application under test. In particular, the test case generator can include a halving module programmed to identify changes in response states in the software application under test evoked from input tokens having selected ones of the lengths defined within sub-ranges of a specified range of integral values.

Software tool configured to generate test cases characterized by a linear range of integral values

A software testing system for testing software module responsiveness to string input tokens having lengths which span a range of integral values. The system can include a range bounding processor configured to probe the software module across a communicative coupling with string input tokens having selected ones of the lengths without probing the software module with string input tokens of all of the lengths which span the range of integral values.

Testing software module responsiveness to string input tokens having lengths which span a range of integral values

A caching system and method are disclosed that allow for the caching of web pages that have dynamic content. The caching system and method utilize a cacheability analyzer that analyzes responses based on time, content, user identification, and macro hierarchy. The caching system only caches those responses having dynamic content that are deemed cacheable. Further, the automatic caching system can be overridden by the information author, the page creator or the system designer.

Cache override control in an apparatus for caching dynamic content

A caching system and method are disclosed that allow for the caching of web pages that have dynamic content. The caching system and method utilize a cacheability analyzer that analyzes responses based on time, content, user identification, and macro hierarchy. The caching system only caches those responses having dynamic content that are deemed cacheable. The method for caching dynamic content includes identifying parts of a response to a request for dynamic content from a requestor and attributes associated with the parts. The attributes are examined to determine cacheability of the response. A cacheability is made based on the determination and the response may be cached based upon that cacheability determination.

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John Thomas Chamberlain