Methods, systems, apparatus and computer-readable media are disclosed for translating human-readable software elements into a machine executable format. According to a first aspect, a method is disclosed for translating human-readable software elements into a machine executable format. The method includes defining a plurality of actions to be performed. Each action is associated with at least one human-readable software element, and each action having an associated element type selected from among a plurality of element types. The method also includes sequencing the plurality of actions according to the plurality of associated element types. The method further includes executing a plurality of asynchronous action processing tasks, and assigning an action to each of the asynchronous action processing tasks in accordance with the sequencing until each of the actions is performed. Other methods, apparatus, systems and computer readable media are disclosed for translating human-readable software elements into a machine executable format.