9. A computer program product comprising a computer usable storage medium embodying computer usable program code for configuring a test plan for serialization, the computer program product comprising: computer usable program code for selecting a template of the test plan through a graphical user interface of a test plan markup generation module executing in memory by a processor of a host computer; computer usable program code for extracting a table of contents from the selected template, the table of contents including at least one reference to at least one test case; and, computer usable program code for transforming at least one portion of the table of contents including the at least one test case into a markup language representation of the selected template of the test plan.
9. A computer program product comprising a computer usable storage medium embodying computer usable program code for configuring a test plan for serialization, the computer program product comprising: computer usable program code for selecting a template of the test plan through a graphical user interface of a test plan markup generation module executing in memory by a processor of a host computer; computer usable program code for extracting a table of contents from the selected template, the table of contents including at least one reference to at least one test case; and, computer usable program code for transforming at least one portion of the table of contents including the at least one test case into a markup language representation of the selected template of the test plan. 12. The computer program product of claim 9 , further comprising computer usable program code for serializing the markup language representation of the selected template for transmission over a computer communications network.