AI applied to service virtualisation

CA Technologies and the Swinburne University of Technology have jointly developed a technology that enables a service to be virtualised without needing expert knowledge or documentation.

An artificial intelligence technology the creators call opaque data processing uses a genome sequencing algorithm to detect byte-level patterns in messages sent between services.

This method allows services to be virtualised without knowing the message structure, eliminating the need for a data protocol handler.

CA Technologies said this technology will pave the way for a wider range of service protocols to be virtualised, including, for example, the protocols of mainframe systems where the system expert has retired and documentation is unavailable.

“We are very excited with the results of our ARC Linkage project with CA,” Swinburne University of Technology Dean of Software and Electrical Engineering Professor John Grundy said.

“It is very rewarding to see the commercialisation of our work and to know that organisations worldwide will benefit from our discovery and be able to get applications to market faster with improved software development and testing environments.”

CA Technologies’ research arm CA Labs jointly managed and funded the project. The company has incorporated the technology into its CA Service Virtualization 8.0 suite.

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