Patent ID: 8589521

Claim:
A method for testing the connectivity of software applications hosted on networked computers, comprising the following steps: storing hosted function configuration files that define how computers hosting hosted function applications are connected and configured and how data and what kind of data are transmitted or received by the hosted function applications; using stylesheets and software applications to process said hosted function configuration files to obtain information on message transmission protocol and rates, message flow directions, message block sizes, and message connection points and then generate source code for quasi-hosted function applications that simulate the communications functions of respective ones of said hosted function applications; building executable files for quasi-hosted functions based on said source code for quasi-hosted function applications and loading said executable files into networked computers; causing one or more of said quasi-hosted function applications to exchange data blocks with one or more other quasi-hosted function applications via set network protocols predefined in said configuration files; and acquiring and analyzing data representing the connectivity of said quasi-hosted function applications.