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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 11, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Elizabeth T. Dettman, Rochester, MN (US);

Joel C. Dubbels, Rochester, MN (US);

Andrew R. Freed, Cary, NC (US);

Michael W. Schroeder, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/37 (2013.01); G06F 11/366 (2013.01); G06N 5/003 (2013.01); G06F 11/0703 (2013.01); G06F 11/079 (2013.01);
Abstract

Mechanisms are provided, in a Question and Answer (QA) system comprising a processor and a memory, for debugging code. An input question identifying an error during execution of code is processed by the QA system using a corpus corresponding to a software product associated with the code, thereby generating a first candidate answer set. The QA system processes the input question using a code change record repository identifying changes to the code performed over time to generate a second candidate answer set. The QA system generates a final answer to the input question based on the first and second candidate answer sets and outputs the final answer to the input question. The final answer to the input question identifies at least one of a source, in the code, of the error or a solution to resolving the error.


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