Patent ID: 7617462

Claim:
A method, comprising reading program code from memory and processing said program code with one or more processors to perform the following method: displaying a graphical user interface, comprising: a) a first node that identifies a testing scenario for an object oriented business logic process, said first node stemming from a tree; b) a plurality of sub nodes stemming from a first sub tree that stems from said first node, each of said plurality of sub nodes representing a different software component of said business logic process, each of said plurality of sub nodes capable of spawning a second sub tree, said second sub tree stemming from the sub node that spawned it, the following items stemming from said second sub tree: i) a host node that identifies a computer that contains the particular software component that the second sub-tree's sub node represents; ii) an availability node that provides an indication that the particular software component is unavailable when the particular software component is unavailable, the indication that the particular software component is unavailable being made with a color that is different than another color provided by said availability node to indicate that the particular software component is available when the particular software component is available; iii) a heartbeat node that is separate from said availability node and that displays text contained in a message received from a network, said message being part of said testing scenario and describing a characteristic of the particular software component; displaying a feature on said graphical user interface that is dis-connected from said tree, said feature showing non working testing scenarios for other business logic processes, said feature including a second tree, a scenario error node stemming from said second tree that identifies a non working scenario that is experiencing an error.