Patent 7809988 was granted and assigned to The Mathworks on October, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a computer-implemented method for running a test, the test to test a system under test is generated. At least a portion of the test is designated to be run as a distributed test. The designated test portion is selected to be run in one of a synchronous execution mode or an asynchronous execution mode. Tasks of the generated test are distributed to a plurality of workers. The distributed tasks are run with the plurality of workers according to the execution mode selection.