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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2021
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Padma Sanampudi, San Jose, CA (US);
David Henry Gilson, Honolulu, HI (US);
Bruce Todd Jorgens, Eagle, ID (US);
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods include, responsive to a request to test or troubleshoot a software system including a plurality of sub-components that communicate with one another via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), creating one or more gadgets that one or more of inject data in any sub-component and probes responses from any sub-component; performing one or more tests of one of more of the plurality of sub-components utilizing the one or more gadgets to invoke specific behavior of the software system and to collect internal data to examine correctness of the behavior; and subsequent to the one or more tests, removing the one or more gadgets. The one or more gadgets are non-intrusive and do not alter behavior of the plurality of sub-components.