Patent ID: 9582389
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F

Claim:
1. A method for automated verification of appliance procedures using a processor device in a computing environment, comprising: dynamically configuring a testing configuration for automatically testing software by adding at least one of a plurality of application devices to the testing configurations and removing the at least one of the plurality of application devices from the testing configuration for creating a plurality of appliance configurations for configuring a plurality of appliance devices; creating a cabling between the plurality of appliance devices in the testing configuration by controlling switches in order to set up a storage system, simulating a removal operation of one of the at least one of a plurality of application devices to the testing configurations by modifying the cabling; upon configuring the testing configuration, performing: using dynamically configured testing configurations for one of performing initial configuration and installation procedures on the plurality of appliance configurations, a server upgrade operation, a server swap operation, a host input/output operation (I/O), and an error injections and verifications operations.