Intuit, Inc.

Daniel J Richardson

Michael R Gabriel

Ravi Subramaniam Iyer

Kristen Berman

Anuradha Sameer Rahurkar

Agila Seetharaman

While testing a software application that is associated with a database during a testing technique, a computer system may take over transaction scopes of transactions with the database so that data generated by the software application during the testing and communicated to the database is not persisted in the database (even though this data may be persisted in the database during normal operation). Furthermore, after the testing is completed, the computer system may restore the database to an initial state prior to the testing by rolling back the data which was not persisted.

Modified database transaction scopes during software testing

A method for making a recommendation, comprising obtaining a plurality of recommendations for a plurality of items from a plurality of members of a social networking utility, ranking the plurality of recommendations based on a relationship proximity of the plurality of members to an inquiring member within the social networking utility, wherein the relationship proximity is closest for friends of the inquiring member, and farthest for strangers to the inquiring member, wherein friends of the inquiring member are within a network of the inquiring member, and strangers of the inquiring member are outside of the network of the inquiring network, performing a search for one of the plurality of items, and displaying the plurality of recommendations associated with one of the plurality of items in an order defined by the ranking.

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Daniel J Richardson