Patent ID: 8621441

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying a potential source code defect; assigning a defect potential value to the potential source code defect; testing, via a processor, the potential source code defect to yield a testing result and a tested source code defect; updating the defect potential value based on the testing result to yield an updated defect potential value by increasing the defect potential value, when the testing result indicates that the tested source code defect is not a potential false positive; ranking the tested source code defect, among other tested non-false-positive source code defects, based on the updated defect potential value and respective defect potential values associated with the other tested non-false-positive source code defects; and presenting to a user an identified potential non-false-positive source code defect selected from among the ranked tested source code defect and the other tested non-false-positive source code defects, the identified potential non-false-positive source code defect having an associated defect potential value above a predetermined threshold value.