Ncr Corporation

Lsi Corporation

William W Ecton

Madhu C Patel

A test schedule estimator for performing fixes on released software. In a preferred embodiment, historic data from similar builds are used with other data to estimate a time required to perform testing and release based on the number of fixes implemented.

Test schedule estimator for legacy builds

To prevent a race in an asynchronous state machine branching from one state to either of two others, depending on which of two control signals arrives first, one of the signals is latched in the state just ahead of the branching state. The branching then takes place in the branching state upon arrival of the other signal but in a direction determined by the value of the latched signal. If the latched value indicates a wrong order of arrival, the machine releases the original latched value and latches an updated value of the one signal and returns to the branching state. The looping, with unlatching and relatching, continues until the latched value causes branching to take place in the proper direction.

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Augusta, KS, United States of America

William W Ecton