Patent ID: 8694301

Claim:
A method comprising: specifying, from within a test environment, a plurality of test elements within an iterations part of a test, the plurality of test elements including a simulation model executed from within a second environment that is separate from the test environment; generating, from within the test environment, at least one test condition for the test, the at least one test condition specifying a plurality of values; specifying, from within the test environment, at least one metric setting for the simulation model; defining a test variable within the test environment; mapping, from within the test environment, the at least one metric setting of the simulation model to the test variable; running, by a computer, the test from within the test environment such that the simulation model is executed within the second environment for a plurality of iterations based on the plurality of values specified in the at least one test condition; generating, during each iteration of the simulation model, metric data based on the at least one metric setting for the simulation model, the metric data generated within the second environment; and assigning the metric data generated in the second environment to the test variable of the test environment as a result of the mapping of the at least one metric setting of the simulation model to the test variable so that the metric data from the iterations of the simulation model is accumulated within the test environment.