Reusing provisioned resources during heterogeneous component-based testing in a portable automation framework

A tangible non-transitory computer readable storage media impressed with computer program instructions for utilizing already provisioned components in a test scenario, without need to purge and re-provision the already provisioned components, the computer program instructions, when executed on one or more processors, causing the one or more processors to implement operations including:

• interpreting first and second sections of a test script;
• in the first section,
• encountering a reusable-resource-tag and a first instance of requesting provisioning of an associated resource, and
• provisioning the associated resource and designating the associated resource as reusable;
• and
• in the second section,
• encountering a second instance of requesting provisioning of the associated resource,
• determining that the associated resource was designated as being reusable, and
• reusing an already provisioned instance of the associated resource instead of provisioning a new instance and instead of destroying the already provisioned instance and re-provisioning the associated resource.

A system including one or more processors coupled to memory, the memory loaded with computer instructions to utilize already provisioned components in a test scenario, without need to purge and re-provision the already provisioned components, the computer instructions, when executed on the one or more processors, causing the one or more processors to implement actions including:

• interpreting first and second sections of a test script;
• in the first section,
• encountering a reusable-resource-tag and a first instance of requesting provisioning of an associated resource, and
• provisioning the associated resource and designating the associated resource as reusable;
• and
• in the second section,
• encountering a second instance of requesting provisioning of the associated resource,
• determining that the associated resource was designated as being reusable, and
• reusing an already provisioned instance of the associated resource instead of provisioning a new instance and instead of destroying the already provisioned instance and re-provisioning the associated resource.