SMART PROGRESS INDICATOR FOR SCRIPT PROCESSING

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to progress indication and provide a method, system and computer program product for intelligent progress indication for script processing. In one embodiment, a progress indication data processing system can be provided. The system can include a script execution engine such as an ANT configured script execution engine, a history table, and a smart progress indicator coupled to the history table. The indicator can include program code enabled to compute an expected duration of execution of a script such as an ANT script by the script execution engine based upon measured observed durations of execution for annotated portions of the script, for instance, both for the current execution and for previous successful executions.