Patent ID: 8549138

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for generating a web test, the method comprising computer-implemented instructions for: receiving a log file containing one or more requests received at a web server; extracting relevant information from the log file into a data file by retrieving a line from the log file; determining whether the line matches a match rule that identifies a type of request based on values of one or more attributes contained in each line; in response to determining that the line matches the match rule, identifying a web test definition that registered the match rule, the web test definition identifying an extraction rule and the web test template; retrieving a web test template; determining whether the relevant information can be extracted from the line according to the extraction rule; in response to determining that the relevant information can be extracted from the line according to the extraction rule, extracting the relevant information from the line according to the extraction rule; and populating the web test template with the relevant information from the data file to generate the web test.