Patent ID: 8875101

Claim:
A method comprising: determining a subset of all possible interoperable combinations of components of a computing system, wherein the components comprise selected elements of the computing system; storing one or more testing criteria, wherein a testing criteria provides indications of characteristics of one or more of the components of the computing system, wherein a first testing criteria of the one or more testing criteria includes indications of changed components, indications equivalent components, indications of professional judgement for testing of first selected components, and indications of stress criteria for second selected components; selecting a number of interoperable combinations of the components, by an analyzer application, from the subset of interoperable combinations of the components for testing, based on the first testing criteria; and testing the selected interoperable combinations, wherein the selected interoperable combinations are fewer in number than the subset of interoperable combinations, the method further comprising: receiving as input, by the analyzer application, the subset of all possible interoperable combinations of components, and the first testing criteria; and generating, as output, by the analyzer application, test candidates comprising the selected interoperable combination, wherein the test candidates are used for the testing of the selected interoperable combinations, wherein the indications of equivalent components indicate that a first server is equivalent to a second server, and wherein the analyzer application includes only one of the first server and the second server for testing.