Patent ID: 9513948
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for automatically provisioning a virtual machine for replicating or reproducing a defect workflow stage associated with testing a software product, the method comprising: identifying a defect in the software product; identifying steps to reproduce the identified defect; producing an automation script to reproduce the identified defect based on the identified steps; identifying a plurality of relevant environmental details associated with a state of the identified defect; requesting, by a defect tracking system, a virtual machine provisioning system to provision a new virtual machine comprising the identified plurality of relevant environmental details along with an embedded script comprising the produced automation script; building, by the virtual machine provisioning system, the requested new virtual machine; informing, by the virtual machine provisioning system, the defect tracking system that the new virtual machine is ready and including a plurality of updated machine connection details associated with the new virtual machine and a defect description; requesting, by the defect tracking system, the virtual machine provisioning system to delete an original virtual machine; requesting, by the defect tracking system, the virtual machine provisioning system to build a new virtual machine with a nominated fixed build; updating, by the defect tracking system, the identified defect with a plurality of connection details associated with the new virtual machine; and requesting, by the defect tracking system, the virtual machine provisioning system to delete the new virtual machine.