China Mobile Applies for Patent on "Blockchain-Based Stress Testing Method and Device" to Enhance Software Testing Realness and Universality

China Mobile Applies for Patent on "Blockchain-Based Stress Testing Method and Device" to Enhance Software Testing Realness and UniversalityFinancial World, October 24, 2024 - Information from the State Intellectual Property Office shows that China Mobile Communications Group Zhejiang Co., Ltd

China Mobile Applies for Patent on "Blockchain-Based Stress Testing Method and Device" to Enhance Software Testing Realness and Universality

Financial World, October 24, 2024 - Information from the State Intellectual Property Office shows that China Mobile Communications Group Zhejiang Co., Ltd. has applied for a patent titled "Blockchain-Based Stress Testing Method and Device," with publication number CN118796659A, and an application date of October 2023.

This patent aims to address the challenges faced by traditional software testing methods in simulating real-world application scenarios and user environments, thereby improving the universality and authenticity of testing results. The patent abstract indicates that the method is primarily applied to consensus nodes in a blockchain and involves the following steps:

1. After the stress testing resource request is uploaded to the chain, receive current resource information and status information from each ledger node. This information is determined by the ledger nodes based on their own resource information and the stress testing resource request.

2. Based on the current resource and status information from each ledger node, filter out at least one stress testing node.

3. Send the stress testing instruction to the stress testing node, instructing it to retrieve the stress testing script and execute the stress testing task.

This patent utilizes the distributed nature of blockchain nodes to simulate network performance in different regions and device resources of different users, creating a testing environment that more closely resembles real-world execution scenarios after software release. This will effectively enhance the universality and authenticity of stress testing results, providing a more reliable basis for software development and testing.

Specifically, the advantages of this patented technology are primarily reflected in the following aspects:

1. Enhances Test Environment Authenticity: Leveraging the distributed nature of blockchain nodes, it can simulate network performance in different regions, avoiding the limitations of a single network environment in traditional testing environments. At the same time, it can simulate different user device resources, more realistically reflecting the usage scenarios of different users on different devices.

2. Improves Universality of Testing Results: By simulating real-world environments, a more comprehensive evaluation of software performance can be achieved, obtaining more universal testing results, rather than being limited to test results under specific conditions.

3. Enhances Testing Efficiency: Through blockchain technology, testing tasks can be assigned to multiple nodes for parallel execution, effectively shortening testing time and improving testing efficiency.

4. Enhances Testing Credibility: The tamper-proof nature of blockchain technology ensures the authenticity and credibility of testing data, enhancing the reliability of testing results.

The application of this patented technology will bring revolutionary changes to the software development and testing field, providing strong guarantees for improving software quality and user experience. In the future, as blockchain technology continues to develop and be applied, this blockchain-based testing method will be more widely used, offering more possibilities for the advancement of the software industry.

Related Information:

• Patent Name: Blockchain-Based Stress Testing Method and Device

• Publication Number: CN118796659A

• Applicant: China Mobile Communications Group Zhejiang Co., Ltd.

• Application Date: October 2023

Source: Financial World, Author: Intelligence Officer