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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1999
Igor Chirashnya, Haifa, IL;
George Machulsky, Naharia, IL;
Rony Ross, Tel Aviv, IL;
Leah Shalev, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a computer network system that includes a multiplicity of nodes interconnected by a network of switches, wherein data are normally conveyed in the network according to predetermined conventions, a method for simulation testing of the system. One of the nodes is selected to serve as an error injector and injects data into the network in a manner that violates the predetermined conventions, so as to simulate an error condition in the system. Operation of the system is observed following the injection of the data so as to evaluate a response of the system to the error condition.