Patent ID: 8910129

Claim:
A system for managing a plurality of distributed test engines to test at least one device under analysis (DUA), the system comprising: at least one computer device comprising a processor and associated memory, wherein the at least one computer device is programmed to execute a controller; and a control database stored on a data storage device in communication with the at least one computer device, wherein the control database is also in communication with the controller and with at least a portion of the plurality of test engines via an application program interface (API), and wherein the control database comprises stored thereon: a plurality of instruction documents, wherein each instruction document is associated with an execution group, wherein each execution group comprises a portion of the plurality of distributed test engines, and wherein each instruction document comprises an indication of a testing task to be performed by the execution group associated with the instruction document; at least one statistics document for storing output from the plurality of test engines; wherein the controller is configured to write to the plurality of instruction documents to provide, for each execution group, a testing task to be performed by test engines of the execution group on the at least one DUA; and wherein the control database is configured to receive via the API and from at least a portion of a plurality of test engines an update to the at least one statistics document.