Patent ID: 8150674

Claim:
A method for the automated testing of an event driven software application comprising: retrieving an event structure and default event attributes for one or more systems from configuration files of each of the one or more systems; creating via a processor one or more adaptors for each of the one or more systems from the event structure and the default event attributes of each of the one or more systems, each adaptor defined for a particular system; receiving information that specifies a target system, non-default event attributes, and verification information to create a test case, wherein, upon receiving a request to fire the test case: an adaptor for the target system is executed, the adaptor providing the event structure and default event attributes for events of the target system, a simulated event is generated based on the event structure, default event attributes and non-default attributes, the simulated event is transmitted to the target system, and the results are determined by examining a response of the target system to the simulated event and comparing the response to the verification information of the test case.