Service Virtualization Platform Team-Specific Rule Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing service virtualization systems often cause conflicts between different teams using the same virtual service, as they cannot configure virtual services to return different values in response to the same inputs, leading to complications and prolonged testing and development times.
Innovation Solution
A service virtualization platform that associates different teams with distinct virtual service rules, allowing it to respond to service requests based on team-specific configurations, thereby avoiding conflicts and enabling different teams to use the same virtual service with different responses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If different teams use the same virtual service configuration, then resource utilization is improved, but team-specific testing requirements cannot be met
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the virtual service configuration by introducing team identifiers that divide the unified virtual service into team-specific configuration spaces. Each team can define their own response rules, input parameters, and testing scenarios independently within the same virtual service infrastructure, eliminating conflicts while maintaining resource sharing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary configuration layer that sits between the virtual service core and multiple teams. This intermediary layer processes team identifiers and routes requests to appropriate team-specific configurations, enabling isolated team environments without requiring separate virtual service instances.
2Productivity
If a single virtual service is shared among multiple teams, then system resource efficiency is improved, but configuration conflicts arise
Solution Approach 1:
The configuration space is segmented by team identifier, creating isolated configuration namespaces. Each team's configuration changes only affect their own testing scenarios, preventing configuration conflicts while maintaining a single shared virtual service instance that improves resource utilization and testing efficiency.
3Adaptability or versatility
If virtual services are reconfigured for different testing scenarios, then testing flexibility is improved, but configuration management time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables teams to pre-configure their testing scenarios, input parameters, and expected responses in advance within their team-specific configuration spaces. These pre-configured virtual services can be reused across multiple testing iterations, eliminating the need for repeated configuration changes and reducing configuration management time while maintaining testing flexibility.
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AI summary
A service virtualization platform can associate different virtual service rules with different team identifiers. Software applications can be configured to submit service requests to the service virtualization platform that identify corresponding team identifiers. The service virtualization platform can respond to a service request based on a virtual service rule that is associated with a team identifier indicated in the service request, and thereby avoid responding with data defined by a different virtual service rule associated with a different team identifier. The service virtualization platform can accordingly avoid conflicts between teams that configure software applications to interact with the same type of virtual service.