FRACTAL PROCESS SCHEDULER FOR TESTING APPLICATIONS IN A DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM

A fractal process scheduler for testing applications in a distributed processing system having a plurality of nodes. The scheduler includes an originating file containing a sequence of statements, each statement representing a fractal cell, an input file comprising statements from said originating file which generate vertices, a fractal parser for compiling the statements from the input file, one or more intermediate files produced by the fractal parser comprising intermediate results. The intermediate files are executable for scheduling a process of the application being tested to nodes of the distributed processing system. The schedular further includes a master file produced by said fractal parser, said master file which is executable for scheduling a process of the application being tested to nodes of the distributed processing system. The fractal parser maps the input file into the intermediate file and the master file in accordance with complex fractal expansions. The fractal expansions include simple fractal expansion, compounded fractal expansion, reciprocal fractal expansion, and recurrent fractal expansion.