Patent ID: 8484615

Claim:
A method of operating a software framework to build an executable scheme which includes at least one software tool and at least one parameter associated with each software tool, the method comprising: electronically by a processor presenting a first display screen of a graphical user interface (GUI) to allow a user to select at least one software tool from a plurality of software tools, wherein the first display screen provides information relating to the software tools; electronically by a processor presenting a second display screen of the GUI to allow the user to select at least one parameter including a command line parameter for controlling execution of the software tool from a parameter set and to associate the parameter with a selected software tool, wherein second display screen provides information relating to the parameters; and electronically by a processor presenting a third display screen of the GUI to allow the user to associate the selected software tool and the selected parameter together in a scheme such that they are executable as a batch, and to place the selected software tool and the selected parameter into an order for execution.