Patent ID: 7685271

Claim:
A distributed testing platform for testing network traffic filtering rules, comprising: a plurality of testing node devices adapted to execute a plurality of testing nodes for receiving network traffic, for receiving a filtering rule for filtering network traffic and test parameters describing how to test the filtering rule, for testing the filtering rule on the received network traffic according to the test parameters, and for generating test results describing results of the test; a control point computer adapted to execute a control point for receiving the filtering rule to be tested and the test parameters describing how to test the filtering rule, the test parameters including an expected firing rate of the filtering rule, for providing the filtering rule and the test parameters to the plurality of testing nodes, and for receiving the test results from the testing nodes, the test results including a true firing rate of the filtering rule; and a results analysis module adapted to execute on the control point computer for analyzing the test results to determine an accuracy of the tested filtering rule, the analysis comprising a comparison of the expected firing rate to the true firing rate.