Patent ID: 8145450
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method that is adapted to executed by a processor to perform the method, comprising: using policies to identify a set of resources for performing one or more tests, wherein the resources are distributed over a network, each resource is a client machine that has a different configuration with a different operating system from that of remaining resources, each test is a script with a sequence of events defined to process in a predefined order and customized via the policies for each of the client machines; making a proxy available to the resources, wherein the proxy delivers data to the one or more resources for use within the one or more tests, the proxy distributes the data on an as-requested basis to each of the one or more resources to ensure network bandwidth is not adversely impacted on the network; controlling and monitoring the one or more tests from the proxy, the proxy is an active participant in each of the one or more tests; and capturing results from the one or more tests and offloading the results and statistics for the one or more tests to a third-party service that collects, reports, and manages the statistics.