Patent ID: 11949561
Assignee: SERVICENOW, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A method for testing compliance in an application development environment, comprising:
receiving, from a client device, a change set to an application in the application development environment, wherein the change set comprises one or more modifications to a source code of the application;
accessing a database storing a plurality of associations between one or more control objectives and one or more policies, wherein the one or more control objectives define functions to be performed to comply with the one or more policies;
determining whether the change set complies with the one or more policies associated with the one or more control objectives stored in the database;
suspending development of the application in the application development environment such that implementation of the change set is restricted in response to determining that the change set does not comply with the one or more policies;
receiving, from the client device, a request for an exception to at least one of the one or more policies in response to determining that the change set does not comply with the one or more policies;
enabling the implementation of the change set in the application development environment in response to the request for the exception being approved; and
resuming the development of the application in the application development environment in response to the request for the exception being approved.