Vmware, Inc.

Nishant Shreshth

Prabhakaran Rathinagiri

Narayanasamy Ramesh

Sriram Balasubramanian

Thangamani Kasi

Praveen Rudrappa

Varun Sharma

Hasmukh Kumar

A system may include multiple software components of a software application running on multiple nodes in a distributed computing system, a patch execution server including a patch build server including a structured patch execution module connected to the distributed computing system via a network. The patch execution module receives an uploaded patch, a patch definition file, and a workflow template from a global patch repository. Further, the patch execution module creates a patch definition file for the patch using an associated patch master file, an associated build definition file, and an associated product definition file. Furthermore, the patch execution module creates a workflow template using the patch definition file and the patch. Also, the patch execution module creates a workflow file using node information associated with the multiple nodes and the workflow template. In addition, the patch execution module executed the patch, using the patch, patch definition file and the workflow file, across the multiple nodes in the distributed computing system.

Techniques for patching in a distributed computing system

The current document is directed to a subsystem that is incorporated, in one implementation, within an automated application-release-management system. The subsystem to which the current document is directed determines, based on modifications to the source code for an application or another system that are submitted through a check-in process, a subset of tests within a large set of tests developed to test the application or system that invoke routines or other compilation units affected by the submitted source-code modifications. Only those tests that invoke routines and other compilation units affected by the source-code submissions need then be applied during testing and verification of the revised application or system.

Method and system for test-execution optimization in an automated application-release-management system during source-code check-in

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Bengaluru, India

Nishant Shreshth