Various embodiments of the present invention address technical challenges related to software testing and make substantial technical improvements to improving the computational efficiency and operational reliability of test automation platforms, as well as to the operational reliability of software applications that are tested using the software application platforms. Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing efficient and techniques for visual software test management using captured test case data entities, annotation-based test case data entities, and dynamic test case data entity cloning.