Patent ID: 8819494
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: in response to an error encountered by a test of a program, finding the error in a rule that specifies an action from among a plurality of rules, each rule specifying a respective at least one action to be invoked in response to occurrence of a corresponding error of a plurality of errors; selecting a part in the program in response to the action; modifying the part in the program in response to the selecting and in response to the action; re-executing the test on the program that comprises part that was modified by the modifying; wherein at least one rule of said plurality of rules specifies iteratively performing the actions of: generating a problem report for output to a user; and if the error is uncharacterized, creating a new rule and a new action that specifies replacing the part that was fixed in response to the error, after the part was fixed.