To perform a test without changing an actual setting and environment, by generating a throw-away test setting and alternatively executing it.
An information processing device performs the steps of: managing a job defined by using a plurality of commands to execute a flow of predetermined processing in a table; changing a mode of a corresponding command to which a virtual command is set to a virtual mode in the table, when the command which virtually executes processing is defined among the commands included in the managed job; managing the defined command in a virtual command table; determining if a command of an execution object is in the virtual mode, when executing a job included in the managed table; and executing the virtual command corresponding to the command of the execution object, if it is determined that the command is in the virtual mode as a result of the determination.
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