In accordance with the present invention, the above and other problems are solved by an integrated test framework that can receive measurement commands from a test script, automatically configure and execute any performance metrics required to effectuate the measurements and further manage the operation of the software to be tested. The integrated test framework can interpret script commands directed at any testing tool in a testing tool library accessible to the framework. Furthermore, the integrated test framework can identify and utilize code markers during the testing of software applications that utilize embedded code markers as well as identifying script markers. Thus, the integrated framework allows testing scenarios to be created incorporating both code markers and script markers to control performance testing of the executing software application.