Patent ID: 7454660

Claim:
A method for testing a multi-tier application having a presentation layer, a business layer, and a third layer for storing information associated with the multi-tier application, wherein the method comprises: sending known test inputs to a first instance of the multi-tier application; receiving output from the first instance of the multi-tier application responsive to the known test inputs, the output in a geographic-specific and linguistic specific format; converting the output into a geographic-neutral and linguistic-neutral format; establishing predicted output for the multi-tier application based on the converted output; generating a test script for the multi-tier application by associating the predicted output with the known test inputs; and storing the test script in a geographic-neutral and linguistic-neutral format based on a predefined Extensible Markup Language (“XML”) schema, wherein the test script is to send the known test inputs in the geographic-neutral and linguistic-neutral format to the business layer of a second instance of the multi-tier application, bypassing the presentation layer, and compare results from the second instance of the multi-tier application with the predicted output.