Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ramakrishnan Peruvemba

James R Boldman

Jian Wang

Upshur Parks

Marco Piumatti

Karl Froelich

Zheng Ni

Jonathan T Wheeler

Chong Zhang

Erik S Johnson

Ivan Davtchev

Vivek M Sawant

Kishore J Prakash

Francesco Faggioli

Internet connectivity evaluation provides for easy, efficient and effective testing of the Internet connectivity behavior between an operating system hosted on a computing device and an IGD (Internet Gateway Device) interacting with the computing device. With a user's computing device communicating with one or more servers, or server-type devices, interacting with, or otherwise communicating with, the Internet, Internet connectivity evaluation can quickly and cost-effectively be performed to identify known major issues in the interaction between the operating system hosted on the user's computing device and an IGD.

Internet connectivity evaluation

A system and method for emulation of a network link include an application programming interface (API) for testing distributed applications by way of a network emulator. According to aspects of the invention, a method and computer program product are disclosed for providing an interface to a user application for configuring a network emulator. According to another aspect of the invention, a system for configuring a network emulator by way of a user application is provided. The API includes exposed functions for creating a virtual channel, creating a virtual link in the virtual channel, deleting the virtual channel, deleting the virtual link, obtaining trace data, obtaining a packet filter for the virtual channel, obtaining a link rule and the number of instances of the virtual link, initializing the emulator, modifying the virtual channel, modifying the virtual link, setting trace information for the emulator, shutting down the emulator, and stopping the emulation.

Method and system for network emulation

A test framework for testing peer-to-peer applications allocates a test case manager and a plurality of distributed test units for each test case, which has a sequence of actions each to be performed by one of the test units. To enable the test units to perform the test case actions, the test case manager loads dynamic link library files (DDLs) containing the test case to each test unit, and creates on each test unit a test object that can be remotely activated using an object-remoting framework. To execute the test case, the test case manager goes through the sequence of test case actions. For each action, the test case manager calls the test object on a corresponding test unit to perform the action. In this way, the test case manager directs the test units to carry out the test case actions. The results of the test case actions are logged by the distributed test units and then collected for analysis and diagnosis.

System and method for testing peer-to-peer network applications

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