International Business Machines Corporation

Neta Aizenbud-Reshef

Gabi Zodik

Michael Starkey

Marc-Thomas Schmidt

Yael Shaham-Gafni

Stephen James Todd

A method for assessing adequacy of message flow testing, including defining coverage criteria for testing a message flow through a set of message flow elements, determining a message-flow-coverage-goal for the message flow with respect to the coverage criteria, and designing a test suite responsive to the message-flow-coverage-goal. The method further includes applying the test suite to the message flow to generate a coverage result for the set of message flow elements and comparing the coverage result with the message-flow-coverage-goal.

Coverage analysis of message flows

Provided are an execution monitoring tool, a method and a computer program product for monitoring a message processing program or system. The execution monitoring tool identifies locations within the message processing program corresponding to a predefined set of execution progress stages, and inserts execution progress report generator components at these locations. Execution progress reports (including a representation of the message contents and structure) are then sent to the execution monitoring controller which maps the report data to its own representation of the program to determine the current position within an execution program. The message contents and structure, as well as the structure of the program and the current execution position, are displayed during execution on a test system. The execution reports include the current execution status as well as the position within the execution flow.

Monitoring messages during execution of a message flow

Provided are an execution monitoring tool, a method and a computer program product for monitoring execution of an hierarchical visual program. Execution progress reports are sent to an execution monitoring controller which maps the report data to its own representation of the hierarchical program to determine the current position within an execution program. The hierarchical structure of the program and the current execution position are displayed during execution on a test system. The execution monitoring controller maintains an hierarchical representation of the visual program's structure, builds an execution stack from the execution progress reports, and compares the received reports with the hierarchical representation to determine a current execution position. The execution reports include the current execution status as well as the position within the execution flow. In an implementation of the invention for debugging a visual message flow, which represents a sequence of message processing operations as a set of nodes and connections between the nodes, the execution progress reports include the content and structure of the message during execution and this is also displayed to the user. A set of debug nodes for generating the execution progress reports are preferably automatically inserted in the message flow before executing it on a test and debugging system, and these debug nodes send execution progress reports to a debug controller.

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