Patent ID: 7237014

Claim:
A method for coordinating interoperability testing of software standards among a plurality of applications under test, some said applications under test acting as senders, other said applications under test acting as receivers, under the control of an administrative server, the method comprising: sending a command from the administrative server to an administrative client, whereby the administrative client makes available the command to the “receiver” application under test via a shared directory; the command instructing the application under test to take on the role of receiver and informing it of the test the “sender” application under test will perform, the “reciever” application under test, then acknowledging the command by providing status back via the shared directory, and the application under test configuring itself according to the command just received, and waiting on the sender application under test, the sender application under test, then being instructed to take on the role of the sender, and to commence testing, in similar fashion, by the sending a command to the “sender” application under test, from the administrative server to the administrative client via the shared directory; the sender application under test, acknowledging the command and commencing testing execution against the receiver application under test, as identified in the command, the test, comprising testing for interoperability success in a live supply chain, or controlled testing environment, of software standards a module including the application under test based on the received commands; sending results of the test from the application under test module to an administrative server module via the shared directory and an administrative client module; and wherein the test is coordinated in a real-time, low-intrusive, supply chain setting, or controlled testing environment.