Patent ID: 8875092
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a processing device of a defect tracking system corresponding to a platform, a software certification request of a software product with respect to the platform; mapping, by the processing device, attributes of the software certification request into pre-existing attributes of a defect template of the defect tracking system; and providing the software certification request to a software certification testing server to enable the software certification testing server to run one or more tests that are part of a software certification test plan for the software product, wherein the one or more tests for certification purposes are indicated in a test plan attribute of the software certification request, wherein the test plan attribute comprises one or more tri-state test flags, each representing a test of the one or more tests for certification purposes, and wherein a tri-state flag associated with a particular test selected to be run against the software product is marked with a representation to indicate that the test is to be run by the software certification testing server against the software product, and wherein any test associated with tri-state flags that are blank are not run by the software certification testing server against the software product.