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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2005
Eric E. Blouin, Ardmore, PA (US);
Barry A. Kritt, Raleigh, NC (US);
Douglas A. Law, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Kuldip Nanda, Apex, NC (US);
Paul A. Roberts, Raleigh, NC (US);
Shawn Sremaniak, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Eric E. Blouin, Ardmore, PA (US);
Barry A. Kritt, Raleigh, NC (US);
Douglas A. Law, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Kuldip Nanda, Apex, NC (US);
Paul A. Roberts, Raleigh, NC (US);
Shawn Sremaniak, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An automated technique for switching operating systems, responsive to current context of an executing test scenario. A test designer specifies, in a process control file, a required operating system for appropriate command blocks. A test sequencer packages the required operating system name with each command to be executed, and sends that information to a test listener on a system under test. The test listener remembers the currently-running operating system, and compares that to the required operating system for each command to be executed. If a mismatch occurs, then the correct operating system is not running, and the listener automatically triggers a reboot.