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Paul M Midgen

Eliot Carleton Gillum

Krishna C Vitaldevara

Mihai Costea

Wei Jiang

Jason D Walter

Malcolm Hollis Davis

Douglas John Hines

Vasantha K Vemula

Michael James Ahiakpor

Samuel J L Albert

Viresh Ramdatmisier

Pierre-Jean Reissman

Jacqueline Lynette Reid

Message management and classification techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a message received from a sender for delivery via a user account is examined to extract one or more features of the message. A determination is then made as to whether the message corresponds to one or more categories based on the extracted features, the categories usable to enable features to be applied to the message in a user interface.

Message classification and management

Testing of a software build. Differences between software builds are tracked by scanning the binaries of a software product to automatically discover its classes. A detailed dictionary is built that captures static and dynamic information of that build, including class dependencies. A comparison may be made with another build, so that selective tests may be automatically executed on any types, and their dependencies, that have had a structural or behavioral modification since the last build. Testers may load a set of constructors for any specific types to further increase coverage of types (or classes) tested. Detailed reports may also be provided that may be used to drive future testing work and target specific areas of the code for additional testing. Code generation from intermediate code to specified targets may also be performed to aid in reproducing and fixing bugs.

Method and system for automatically testing a software build

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Paul M Midgen