International Business Machines Corporation

Peng Shi

Louie Arthur Dickens

Karl David Joseph Arvizu

Paul Cross

A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving, by a protocol server, a source code file. The source code file includes a TCDF. The TCDF includes parameters for a test case, preparation steps related to the test case, and a plurality of test case blocks. Each test case block of the plurality of test case blocks includes a set of testing steps and a certificate. The source code file is output by the protocol server to a SUT with an instruction for the SUT to execute the source code file in order to implement the set of testing steps for each of the plurality of test case blocks. A plurality of responses are received by the protocol server from the SUT. Each of the responses are compared against the certificates of the test case blocks. A test result is generated by the protocol server based on the comparisons.

Validation of a subset of a plurality of responses during protocol testing

A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes outputting, from a requester system to a server system, a request signature. The request signature requests at least one parameter of a function specified in the request signature. The method further includes receiving a first response signature from the server system and identifying within the first response signature a parameter. The specified function is applied to the identified parameter for determining whether the parameter is valid. In response to a determination that the identified parameter of the first response signature is invalid, a location and/or an identity of the identified parameter is marked in a copy of the first response signature. The method further includes using a functional topology of the requester system to trace the identified parameter determined to be invalid to a valid parameter, and outputting a second response signature that includes the marked-up copy of the first response signature.

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