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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Zachary A. Silverstein, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Samir Nasser, Durham, NC (US);
Neil Delima, Scarborough, CA;
Shikhar Kwatra, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method addresses a defect in software. The method periodically captures snapshots of versions of code for a particular software program as one or more functionalities are added to the particular software program. The method determines that a current version of the particular software program has a defect, and then iteratively tests previous versions of that particular software program until a most-recent non-defective version of the particular software program is detected. A software developer is directed to either debug the current version of the particular software program, or else re-create the current version of the particular software program from the most-recent non-defective version of the particular software program, depending on which approach is faster.