Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chung Heong Gooi

Xinyu Liu

Xin Li

Fabio Andre Pintos

Xiaodong Wang

Joao Cangussu

Ramanan Vellore Ramesh

A system and method for determining an out of office status is described. A server accesses email data for a user account and determines email activities from the email data. The email activities comprises a rate of number of read emails and sent emails from the user account over a first time frame. The system determines weekday email activities and weekend email activities from the email activities over the first time frame. The system compares weekday email activities of a second time frame with the weekend email activities of the first time frame. The system assigns an out of office label to one or more weekday of the second time frame in the calendar application for the user account based on the comparing.

Out of office email detection system

A scalable system and method is described that automatically identifies one or more generic tests for testing a GUI. A generic test case is written once instead of writing test cases for every single page or assembly. Each page has a corresponding page type. Each generic test is mapped to one or more testing rules, where the testing rules each have a rule type. An automated system is provided to scan target directories for all relevant pages related to a software product, identify a page type for each page, identify the appropriate generic test cases to be applied to each page, execute the generic test cases, and provide an output to indicate the results of the tests on the various pages. The generic tests for the GUIs can thus be automatically applied to identify and eliminate a certain class of bugs matching the behavior of the generic test case.

Generic validation test framework for graphical user interfaces

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