Patent ID: 7757117

Claim:
A method for compensating virtual users for a test run system of an enterprise system, the method comprising: (a) identifying termination of a virtual user in the test run system; (b) creating a new virtual user to compensate for the terminated virtual user, including: determining a matching rule associated with the terminated of the virtual user, and creating the new virtual user for the enterprise system based on the matching rule; and (c) assigning a new virtual user to the enterprise system thereby compensating for the terminated virtual user, wherein the enterprise system comprises a plurality of components, each virtual user in the test run system is targeted to at least one of the plurality of components, and each of the new virtual user is targeted to at least one of the plurality of components, and wherein the matching rule determines policy for compensating the terminated virtual user targeted to a first component with the new virtual user targeted to a second component in a first condition, the second component being different from a first component.