API Validation Virtual Hash Map for SOAP REST Testing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing API testing and validation methods are inefficient, requiring manual traversal of large responses to find actual values for assertions, leading to increased regression cycle time and processor overhead, and lack automation for parallel execution across different protocols.
Innovation Solution
A dynamic and configurable API Testing and Validation System that receives executable code requests, processes payload responses, and maps key-value pairs to generate a virtual hash map for comparison, enabling automated testing and validation of SOAP and REST web services with reduced script modifications and parallel execution capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual traversal of large responses is used to find actual values for assertions, then testing accuracy can be maintained, but regression cycle time increases and processor overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical traversal of response data with an automated hashing system. The Comparator component automatically generates hashes of actual response values and compares them against expected hash values, substituting the manual mechanical process of finding and verifying values with an automated computational hashing mechanism. This maintains testing accuracy while dramatically reducing regression cycle time.
2Measurement precision
If manual traversal of large responses is used to find actual values for assertions, then testing accuracy can be maintained, but processor overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent substitutes the computationally intensive manual traversal process with a more efficient hashing mechanism. The Comparator component generates hashes of actual response values and performs hash comparisons, which are computationally less intensive than full-value comparisons and traversals. This reduces processor overhead while maintaining testing accuracy through the deterministic nature of hash functions.
3Productivity
If automated testing is implemented across different protocols, then testing efficiency improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal testing system where the Comparator component can handle multiple protocols (SOAP, REST, and other web service protocols) through a single unified interface. The system accepts executable code requests for different protocol types and processes them through the same hashing and comparison mechanism, achieving multi-protocol support without requiring separate testing systems for each protocol, thus improving testing efficiency while managing system complexity.
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AI summary
Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods, computer-readable media, systems, and apparatuses for receiving data. An electronic computer implemented method of API testing and validation is provided. In the method, via a computer-based network, includes receiving a plurality of executable code requests for a first plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated with a first network protocol and a second plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated with a second network protocol. In the method each of the executable code requests are associated with a baseline attribute data value. Further, the method includes electronically receiving a plurality of payload response attribute data values associated with each executable request and electronically parsing the payload response attribute values with Parser component. The method includes electronically processing the parsed payload response attribute values with Comparator component and mapping to each of the code requests associated with the baseline attribute value to generate a virtual hash map of key pairs.