Patent ID: 7734763

Claim:
A method, comprising: reading program code from memory and processing said program code with one or more processors to perform the following: executing a testing scenario, said executing of said testing scenario including repeatedly receiving request messages from an entity over a network at a testing application on a server or servlet engine, said testing application being a software program that tests availability of other software programs and/or components, at least one of said software components including a login procedure for the at least one of said software components availability test, said request messages identifying a set of software components being: a) servable and/or invokable by said server or servlet engine; b) associated with said testing scenario; and, c) used by a same business logic process within an information system infrastructure, and, at least one of said request messages providing a respective user identification for the at least one software components including the login procedure for the at least one of said software components availability test; and, said executing of said testing scenario comprising, in response to each of said request messages: said testing application testing said set of software components for availability and preparing and sending onto said network a response message to report, to the entity, availability or unavailability of said set of software components, said entity having sent said response message's corresponding request message.