System and method for determining critical sequences of actions causing predetermined events during application operations

Abstract

A system and method to collect an actions list of action sequences in an application leading to a predetermined resulting event, create pairs of the action sequences, apply a fitting alignment to the action sequence pairs to create fitted action sequence pairs, wherein non-matching data between fitted action sequences of each pair is replaced with gaps to ensure that the first and second fitted action sequences are of equal length and are aligned with one another with the gaps being located at index positions the fitted action sequences corresponding to index positions of non-matching data, and delete data, for each of the fitted action sequence pairs, corresponding to the gaps to create a critical sequence of actions for each of the fitted action sequence pairs representing, respectively, common actions of the fitted action sequences of each of the fitted action sequence pairs leading to the predetermined resulting event.