Methods and systems for resource queuing and delivery

A tangible non-transitory computer readable storage media impressed with computer program instructions that, when executed, deliver scarce test equipment resources to a user within a test organization including:

• receiving via an interface a test graph that specifies equipment capabilities needed, by class, for a test and that further specifies times during the test when the equipment capabilities are needed;
• maintaining an inventory of equipment resources and capabilities, by class;
• responsive to the user invoking the test graph, scheduling the needed equipment capabilities, including:
• identifying alternative equipment resources responsive to the equipment capabilities needed, by class, and selecting at least one group of equipment resources to schedule;
• bundling the group of equipment resources to schedule into at least an immediate bundle of resources needed to start the test and a deferred bundle of resources needed later, after the start of the test;
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• queuing a deferred bundle reservation of the deferred bundle for a later time, after the scheduled start of the test;
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• during the test, notifying the user of availability of the equipment resources in the deferred bundle when the deferred bundle becomes available and marking the deferred bundle as in use.