Patent ID: 8219671

Claim:
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising computer instructions for testing applications within a grid environment, wherein said grid environment comprises a production segment and a test segment, the computer instructions comprising: identifying an application comprising one or more hosts that execute actions within a grid of said grid environment disposed in said production segment, wherein at least a portion of said hosts move from one grid in said grid environment to another grid in said grid environment; testing the application by identifying at least a portion of said hosts to yield identified hosts and associating a passive ghost agent within said grid with each of said identified hosts to yield an associated host, wherein said passive ghost agent is configured to replicate and record said actions executed by said associated host in said grid, wherein said recorded data is used to simulate user interactions within said test segment, wherein said replicated actions of said passive ghost agent are prevented from operationally executing in said grid environment, and wherein said passive ghost agent moves responsively from said one grid to said another grid in response to movement of said associated host.