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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
May. 27, 2008
Kevin Gene Kehne, Austin, TX (US);
Claudia Andrea Salzberg, Austin, TX (US);
Steven Joseph Smolski, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin Gene Kehne, Austin, TX (US);
Claudia Andrea Salzberg, Austin, TX (US);
Steven Joseph Smolski, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, apparatus, computer program product and method of performing functional validation testing in a system are provided. Generally, functional validation testing includes data acquisition and data validation testing. During the functional validation testing two devices may be exchanging data. The exchange of data by the two devices may be referred to as data acquisition. The data from one device and the data from the other device may be compared to each other. This may be referred to as data validation. When data is exchanged during data acquisition, it is also stored in appropriate locations in a pool of buffers in memory. During the data acquisition, checks are made to determine if the system is entering an idle cycle. If so, the data validation test is performed by using the data in the pool of buffers in memory.