Michael E Mcclellan

US Patent:

20130007710, Jan 3, 2013

Filed:

Jun 28, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/171387

Inventors:

Ravi S. Vedula - Redmond WA, US
Michael Frank Caver - Bellevue WA, US
Jason Scott Cipra - Woodinville WA, US
Felix Antonio Deschamps - Remond WA, US
Andrew Ryan Dotson - Bothell WA, US
Michael Dean McClellan - Redmond WA, US
Jason Lawrence Muramoto - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

717124

Abstract:

Environments for testing are deployed. A library of different topology groupings is provided. An interface is presented to a user for receiving environment definitions. Elements from the library of different topology groupings are automatically provided to the user for creating a test environment according to the received environment definitions. The platform delivers fully configured instantaneous topology deployments of all flavors for product development and testing efforts. The topology deployment service platform is used to create reliable topologies of varying layers of complexity, varying machine providers, different roles, different product builds, integration with partners and varying product configurations. The ability to launch and create multiple test and development environments trivially in an automated reliable fashion allows complicated customer scenarios and configurations to be deployed.