US Patent 7191362 Parsing test results having diverse formats

An invention is disclosed for providing methods for parsing test results having diverse formats. Test results from executed test suites are identified. Test result formats of the test results are categorized. An order of the test results is tracked. A chain of parsers is assembled from individual parsers such that each individual parser is charged with parsing a particular test result format. Test results are parsed such that the data features that define attributes of the test results are identified where the attributes define pass, fail, and comments associated with the pass or fail.