Patent ID: 7490272

Claim:
In a distributed transaction management system including a first transaction processing module for initiating a transaction session and for transmitting information associated with the transaction session in the form of a message over a first communications link to a second transaction processing module that receives the message and transmits the message over a second communications link to a third transaction processing module used for processing the message, a method of validating the integration of the first transaction processing module and the third transaction processing module comprising the steps of: entering predetermined transactional information into the first transaction processing module; the first transaction processing module using the predetermined transaction information to create a message; the first transaction processing module transmitting the message over a first communications link to the second transaction processing module; the second transaction processing module receiving the message and transmitting the message over a second communications link to a third transaction processing module; the third transaction processing module receiving the message, identifying the message as a test message and determining which of a plurality of test cases the test message corresponds to; the third transaction processing module comparing at least one test message characteristic with at least one corresponding test case characteristic; and as the result of the third transaction processing module comparing the at least one test message characteristic with the at least one corresponding test case characteristic, the transaction processing module generating a message that contains an indication of the successful integration of the first and third transaction processing modules.