A serial testing infrastructure includes the capability to execute a distributed test on multiple virtual processors. A test executable may be stored in a library and the test description, including the name of the test, the test library, and other test characteristics, may be stored in a separate test data file. The serial testing infrastructure initiates multiple distributed test executors that each launch an instance of the distributed test as a process that runs concurrently with other instances of the distributed test. Each distributed test executor monitors execution of it corresponding process until completion or timeout.