Patent ID: 7890806

Claim:
A method, comprising the steps of: reading, without user intervention, an automatic regression test of a test harness file; reading non-graphical software to be tested; executing, without user intervention, the automatic regression test and producing test results from the non-graphical software; and determining, without user intervention, whether the test results pass or fail by their comparison to contents of a benchmark file, if the benchmark file is associated with the test harness file; tabulating, without user intervention, pass/fail statistics; recording, without user intervention, the pass/fail statistics; displaying at least a portion of the test results if the benchmark file is associated with the test harness; displaying complete test results to the user if no benchmark file is associated with the test harness; and masking a time-stamp portion of the test results through employment of a subroutine that converts the time-stamp portion of the test results to a pre-determined string prior to comparing the results to the contents of the benchmark file.