CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE

A method for automatically testing a business intelligence artifact includes receiving business metric data from a business intelligence system, creating a business intelligence artifact derived from the received business metric data, executing the business intelligence artifact to generate a business intelligence output populated with information related to the business metric data, creating at least one test case for the business intelligence artifact, the test case having at least one assertion associated with the business intelligence output to verify the proper functioning of the business intelligence artifact, testing, with an automated agent interfaced with the business intelligence system, the business intelligence artifact for errors by determining whether the output generated by the current version of the business intelligence artifact satisfies the conditions of the assertion after execution of the business intelligence artifact; and if errors are detected, correcting the errors to create a subsequent version of the business intelligence artifact.