METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR EMULATING COMPUTER PROCESSING USAGE PATTERNS ON A VIRTUAL MACHINE

According to one aspect, the disclosed subject matter describes herein a method for emulating computer processing usage patterns on a virtual machine that includes generating a usage pattern specification based on a plurality of computer processing usage patterns provided by a user and receiving, by a virtual machine hosted by a device under test (DUT), the usage pattern specification containing the plurality of computer processing usage patterns. The method also includes generating a plurality of pattern instruction sequences using execution parameters included in each of the plurality of computer processing usage patterns and distributing each of the plurality of pattern instruction sequences among a plurality of virtual processing cores of the virtual machine. The method further includes emulating the operation of the application on the virtual machine by executing the pattern instruction sequences on the virtual processing cores in a manner specified by the execution parameters.