Patent ID: 7231437
Filing Date: 2007-06-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of receiving tasks in a distributed test framework (DTF) comprising: receiving a task in a task feeder, wherein the task is in a task feeder-specific format and wherein the task includes a corresponding plurality of computing system attributes required to execute the task, a location of a required external resource, and one or more pre-execution configuration parameters required to execute the task, the task feeder is included in a communication module in a server, the server coupled to a plurality of ad-hoc computing resources; leasing at least one of the plurality of ad-hoc computing resources, wherein the server includes a look-up service, the look-up service including a list of the plurality of leased ad-hoc computing resources and the look-up service includes a plurality of attributes corresponding to each one of the leased ad-hoc computing resources; converting the task to a DTF-specific format; scheduling the converted task including: selecting at least one of the plurality of leased ad-hoc computing resources from the list wherein the selected at least one of the plurality of leased ad-hoc computing resources includes the corresponding plurality of attributes required to execute the converted task waiting to be executed in the wait queue; dispatching the converted task to the selected at least one of the plurality of leased ad-hoc computing resources at a selected time to execute the converted task; and maintaining the current status of the dispatched converted task in the execution queue.