Load Tester Translator for Message Format Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current load testing tools are limited by their ability to handle only specific message formats, making it difficult to test applications with different formats, and users face challenges in editing scripts to alter load conditions due to incomprehensible formats.
Innovation Solution
A translation tool that converts messages from incompatible formats to compatible ones, allowing load testing tools to generate and simulate loads in formats compatible with both the load testing tool and the server, using a processor and memory-based system with a transformation engine to facilitate this conversion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If load testing tools use fixed message formats, then the tool structure remains simple and stable, but the tool cannot test applications with different message formats
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a message format conversion mechanism that acts as an intermediary between the load testing tool and the application under test. This converter translates messages between different formats, enabling the load testing tool to work with multiple application formats without changing its core structure, thus resolving the contradiction between adaptability and structural simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs parameter-based message format configuration, where message formats are defined through configurable parameters rather than hard-coded structures. This allows the load testing tool to adapt to different message formats by changing parameters, maintaining structural simplicity while achieving format versatility
2Ease of operation
If the load tester uses proprietary script formats, then the tool maintains internal consistency, but users cannot easily edit scripts to alter load conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a script recording and playback mechanism that captures actual user interactions and generates scripts automatically. This copying approach creates editable scripts that mirror real usage patterns, making them comprehensible and easy to modify while maintaining internal consistency through automated generation and playback
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary script generation by recording actual system usage before testing begins. This pre-generated script serves as a template that users can easily edit, combining the benefits of proprietary format consistency with user-friendly editability through advance preparation
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AI summary
Methods, media, and devices for communicating messages between a computer and a server are provided. A processor receives a message in a first format incompatible with the computer from a client computer and performs first and second operations in parallel. In the first operation, the message in the first format is forwarded to the server. In the second operation, the message in the first format is converted into a message in a second format compatible with the computer, and the message in the second format is forwarded to the computer. The processor receives, from the computer, a request in the second format, converts the request in the second format to a request in the first format, and forwards the request in the first format to the server.