Patent ID: 8479164

Claim:
A method for automatically generating test execution plans comprising: receiving of a plurality of user-configured testing parameters for a software application under test by a test execution plan generation tool, said test execution plan tool comprising a computer program product stored on a physical medium, wherein the plurality of user-configured testing parameters correlate to at least one item contained in a predefined test execution plan data model associated with the test execution plan generation tool, and wherein the user-configurable testing parameters comprise at least one of a testing environment, names of software testers to perform the testing, skills required of unnamed software testers, a testing start date, a test duration, a test priority, and a test level of importance; and automatically generating a test execution plan utilizing the plurality of user configured testing parameters and a predefined test execution plan data model, wherein the predefined test execution plan data model comprises testing metadata representing software testing domain data for a software testing system being used to evaluate the software application under test, said testing metadata specifying details of at least one of software testers at a test center, and a component architecture of software testing systems of the test center, wherein said generated test execution plan details specific allocation of the finite shared resources dedicated towards at least one phase of testing the software application to satisfy at least one testing objective for the software application.