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Identification of content gaps based on relative user-selection rates between multiple discrete content sources. A system analyzes search log activity to determine whether users that are conducting particular types of search activities are ultimately selecting and relying upon content resources from a predefined content source of interest or, alternatively, whether such users are unsatisfied with the predefined content source of interest and are instead relying upon other third-party content sources. This particular type of analysis provides valuable insights into whether content gaps exist within the predefined content source of interest.

Identification of content gaps based on relative user-selection rates between multiple discrete content sources

A system and method and for identifying a template for a document includes receiving a request to identify the template from among a plurality of available templates, the plurality of templates being templates that are available for use in an application. After receiving the request, the content and structure of the document are encoded into one or more embedding representations via a trained document encoder and the embedding representations are compared to a plurality of template representations, each of the plurality of template representations being a representation of content and structure of one of the plurality of templates to identify one of the plurality of the templates as corresponding to the document. The identified template is then provided for display as a recommended template.

Method and system of discovering templates for documents

A computer-implemented technique is described herein for removing sensitive content from documents in a manner that preserves the usefulness of the documents for subsequent analysis. For instance, the technique obscures sensitive content in the documents, while retaining meaningful information in the documents for subsequent processing by a machine-learning engine or other machine-implemented analysis mechanisms. According to one illustrative aspect, the technique removes sensitive content from documents using a modification strategy that is chosen based on one or more selection factors. One selection factor pertains to the nature of the processing that is to be performed on the documents after they have been anonymized.

Removing sensitive content from documents while preserving their usefulness for subsequent processing

Computing environments, each executing at least one software program, are monitored for failures occurring during execution of the software program. Information associated with the failure, such as an identification of the software program and a failure type describing the failure, is recorded. The failure information is quantified to report the number of times the software program has failed or the number of times a particular failure has occurred. The quantified data may provide help in prioritizing what program or what failures merit investigation and resolution. Reports may be received from failing computing systems stopped at a state following the occurrence of the failure. In response, hold information is checked to determine whether to instruct the failing computing system to hold a state existing upon the occurrence of the failure.

Tracking down elusive intermittent failures

Break and optional hold preserves a state of a computing environment on which a software program has failed. Being able to examine the status of the environment existing upon the occurrence of the failure, including the condition of various processes and values facilitates resolution of the cause of the failure. Upon occurrence of a failure during the execution of a first software program in a first computing environment, execution of the first software program breaks. A first state of the first computing environment existing upon the breaking in execution of the first software program is then held. A failure notification is generated to signal the failure to a monitoring system. The monitoring system accesses hold information to determine whether the first computing environment should hold its current state and whether one or more other computing environments interacting with the first computing environment should also hold their states.

Break and optional hold on failure

Automation test selection is made for an automation testing process according to the code changes that have occurred between builds of a software product. A mapping between the available tests and source tree locations of the files is maintained. The mapping allows the appropriate tests to be selected for the code changes that have been made, resulting in a more focused automation testing process.

System and method for selecting applicable tests in an automation testing system

A system and method for testing modified code paths without testing unmodified code paths is described. During testing of the baseline build of a program, code coverage data is generated. The code coverage data identifies which test implicates which code path of the baseline build. When a modification of the baseline build is made, the modified build may be differentiated to determine what code of the modified build was changed. When the modified build is differentiated, the code coverage data for the modified code path is mapped to appropriate tests. The tests may then be used to test the changed code path without requiring testing of all the code paths of the modified build.

Code coverage test selection

Software automation testing and validation are provided according to a system that runs automation tests using multiple lab machines and allows the testing to be performed before checking in the code to a version control system. Code changes in a build of the software are provided on a computing device. Automation tests are selected from a list of available tests. When indicated by a job queue, the changed code of the build is forwarded to lab machines allocated by an automation system. An image of the build from the computing device is generated on the lab machines and the automation tests are run against the build. A report is generated and forwarded back to one or more recipients that notifies of the success or failure of the automation testing.

System and method for automation testing and validation

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