Measurement deferral and aggregation for extensible test configuration
View Patent ↗A system having a diagnostic measurement system (DMS) and method include a multi-protocol application test identifying components corresponding to protocols mixed within the multi-protocol application test, executing the protocols to collect measurements of the components, combining the measurements of the components to generate measurements corresponding to the multi-protocol application test, and outputting the measurements of the multi-protocol application test to the DMS, wherein the multi-protocol application test defers outputting the measurements of the components to the DMS as the measurements are collected from each protocol.
1. A system having a diagnostic measurement system (DMS), comprising:
a multi-protocol application test identifying components corresponding to protocols mixed within the multi-protocol application test, executing the protocols to collect measurements of the components, combining the measurements of the components to generate measurements corresponding to the multi-protocol application test, and outputting the measurements of the multi-protocol application test to the DMS, wherein the multi-protocol application test defers outputting the measurements of the components to the DMS as the measurements are collected from each protocol.
2. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the multi-protocol application test is a single test environment or a programming environment that collects and defers the outputting of the measurements obtained from each protocol until the measurements for the multi-protocol application test that the DMS is concerned with are completely obtained.
3. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the multi-protocol application test selects specific measurements from the collected measurements of the components to generate the measurements corresponding thereto.
4. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the protocols extract from the multi-protocol application test attributes to generate the measurements of the components.
5. The system as recited in claim 3 , wherein the multi-protocol application test captures arbitrary data relevant to the measurement of the multi-protocol application test from the system, and combines the selected measurements of the components with the arbitrary data to generate measurements corresponding to the multi-protocol application.
6. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the multi-protocol application test executes the protocols simultaneously or following a predetermined execution sequence.
7. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the multi-protocol application test stores the measurements aggregated of the components of the protocols.
8. A method to measure a multi-protocol application test in an agent that is connected to a diagnostic measuring system (DMS), comprising:
identifying components corresponding to protocols mixed within the multi-protocol application test;
executing the protocols to collect measurements of the components;
defer outputting of the measurements of the components to the DMS as the measurements are collected from each protocol;
combining the measurements of the components of the protocols to generate measurements corresponding to the multi-protocol application; and
outputting the measurements of the multi-protocol application to the DMS.
9. The method as recited in claim 8 , further comprising:
selecting specific measurements from the collected measurements of the components; and
evaluating the multi-protocol application using the selected measurements of the components.
10. The method as recited in claim 9 , further comprising:
capturing arbitrary data relevant to the measurement of the multi-protocol application test; and
combining the selected measurements of the components with the arbitrary data to generate measurements corresponding to the multi-protocol application test.
11. The method as recited in claim 8 , further comprising:
executing the protocols multiple times using different attributes depending on the multi-protocol application test being measured.
12. The method as recited in claim 8 , further comprising:
storing the measurements aggregated of the components of the protocols.
13. The method as recited in claim 8 , further comprising:
extracting from the multi-protocol application test attributes to generate the measurements of the components.
14. A method to measure a multi-protocol application test in an agent that is connected to a diagnostic measuring system (DMS) of a network under test, comprising:
identifying components corresponding to the multi-protocol application test;
extracting attributes from the multi-protocol application test to collect measurements of the components;
defer outputting of the measurements of the components to the DMS as the measurements are collected;
selecting specific measurements from the collected measurements of the components; and
combining the selected measurements of the components with arbitrary data to generate measurements corresponding to the multi-protocol application test.
15. The method as recited in claim 14 , wherein the arbitrary data is extracted from the network under test.
16. The method as recited in claim 14 , further comprising:
executing protocols mixed within the multi-protocol application test multiple times using different attributes depending on the multi-protocol application test being measured.
17. The method as recited in claim 14 , further comprising:
storing the collected measurements of the components.
18. A method to measure a multi-protocol application test in an agent connected to a diagnostic measuring system (DMS), comprising:
identifying components of the multi-protocol application to be measured;
identifying protocols within the multi-protocol application test that correspond to the identified components;
executing each of the protocols to extract from the multi-protocol application test attributes that each of the protocols needs, and to collect measurements associated with the identified components;
defer outputting the measurements of the components from the protocols to the DMS;
capturing arbitrary data from a network under test;
aggregating the measurements of the components of the protocols;
selecting specific measurements from the aggregated measurements of the components;
combining the specific measurements of the components with the arbitrary data;
generating the measurements of the multi-protocol application test; and
outputting the measurements of the multi-protocol application test from the agent to the DMS.
19. The method as recited in claim 18 , further comprising:
storing the measurements aggregated of the components of the protocols.
20. The method as recited in claim 18 , further comprising:
executing the protocols simultaneously or following a predetermined execution sequence.