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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
May. 30, 2008
Piotr Beltowski, Cracow, PL;
Wojciech Kocjan, Rybnik, PL;
Piotr Beltowski, Cracow, PL;
Wojciech Kocjan, Rybnik, PL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of verifying an update to a computer software application running on a machine in a network having a plurality of machines, the method including applying a selected one in a series of a plurality of patches for an application, determining if the application behaves correctly after installing the selected one in the series of patches by test running the application and by determining if a functionality of the application changes, gathering outputs from the determining, applying additional ones of the series of the plurality of patches for the application, rolling back the applied patches after a set of checks has been made to return said application to an original state, creating a results file from the gathered outputs, identifying an exact patch level required to correct a problem with the application, verifying that the identified exact patch does not cause a compatibility problem, and analyzing results files from multiple machines to determine possible patch levels that resolve issues and cause no new problems.