International Business Machines Corporation

Kevin McKenzie

Eileen Patricia Tedesco

Joel Leslie Masser

Arthur J Bariska, Jr

Matthew T Cousens

Eileen S Kovalchick

Tarun Kumar

Daniel V Rosa

Maxim I Sviridenko

Tracy Jay Kimbrel

Cherri M Vidmar

Richard D Prewitt, Jr

Tracy C Allen

Charles J Bryant

Ajay K Moluguru

Aaron Kippins

Eugenie L Alexander

Debra Tomkowid

Aspects of the invention include methods, systems and computer program products for identifying interaction software defects. Aspects include singly executing a first testcase at a normal processing speed and singly executing a second testcase at the normal processing speed. Aspects also include simultaneously executing the first testcase at a first processing speed and a second testcase at a second processing speed. Based on determining the single and simultaneous testcase results do not match, aspects further include creating an error notification.

Identifying software interaction defects using differential speed processors

A method for screening an incoming call is provided. The method may include receiving a transmission of the incoming call in a user device. The method may include determining the incoming call originates from an area code of a telephone number associated with the user device. The method may include determining call information associated with a telephone number is stored within a database. The method may include determining at least one previous call from the telephone number has a call duration that does not satisfy a user preconfigured call duration threshold. The method may include determining the at least one determined previous call satisfies a maximum short call duration threshold. The method may also include determining a previous call frequency count satisfies a user preconfigured frequency threshold. The method may further include displaying the incoming call and an incorrectly dialed call notification on a display screen of the user device.

Area code and call duration-aware call screening

An approach to notifying a person who is hard of hearing of audible events based on a configurable device. The device has microphones and associated buttons mounted on its surface. The user programs the device by depressing a selected button longer than a preconfigured time to place the device in listen mode. The user generates the desired audible event and the device records the audible event. The selected button is depressed again to instruct the device to associate the audible event with a visual alarm indicator of colored/flashing lights and/or a text projection. The device listens for the audible event and activates the visual alarm indicator when the device detects the audible event.

General purpose device to assist the hard of hearing

A deviance monitoring module is provided for examining various parameters of an operating system for deviance from a baseline behavior at specified intervals. A range of acceptable deviance values from a baseline behavior is set for parameters of an operating system. The parameters of the operating system are then monitored at specified intervals for deviance from the baseline behavior. In response to detecting that the deviance exceeds a predetermined threshold, the method triggers diagnostic data gathering on the parameters of the operating system according to an embodiment.

Monitoring and capturing early diagnostic data

A method for testing using a preserve status parameter in a computing system includes setting, by a calling process in the computing system, the preserve status parameter; issuing a call to a function under test by the calling process in the computing system; executing the function under test in the computing system, wherein data in a memory area accessed by the function under test during execution is preserved by the set preserve status parameter, such that the computing system does not reuse the memory area while the data in the memory area is being preserved; determining if an error occurred during execution of the function under test; in the event an error is determined to have occurred during execution of the function under test, making the data in the memory area available for inspection; and releasing the memory area for reuse by the computing system.

Preserve status parameter for testing in computing system

A system and method that provides an automated solution to obtaining quality scheduling for users of computing resources. The system, implemented in an enterprise software test center, collects information from test-shop personnel about test machine features and availability, test jobs, and tester preferences and constraints. The system reformulates this testing information as a system of constraints. An optimizing scheduling engine computes efficient schedules whereby all the jobs are feasibly scheduled while satisfying the users' time preferences to the greatest extent possible. The method and system achieves fairness: if all preferences can not be meet, it is attempted to evenly distribute violations of preferences across the users. The test scheduling is generated according to a first application of a greedy algorithm that finds an initial feasible assignment of jobs. The second is a local search algorithm that improves the initial greedy solution.

Scheduling heterogeneous partitioned resources with sharing constraints

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