Patent ID: 8813039

Claim:
A method for improving a defect reporting mechanism for software in a software quality automated process using automated log scanning in a system, the method comprising: a testing entity identifying a software defect with a trace identification that associates a software defect during execution of a test case with application code on a source system that led to the generation of the defect, the trace identification being unique to each interaction between a client system and a provider system; the computer making calls to the source system to obtain log information from the source system using the trace identification; the computer generating a software defect report, wherein the software defect report is generated in real-time as the software defect is identified during testing of the test case, wherein the software defect report is submitted by a testing entity to a software developer responsible for creating a software product having the software defect, and wherein the defect report contains information to identify the location of the software defect in the application code of the software product; the computer reviewing the software defect report; the computer determining if the software defect report information is complete; and if the software defect report information is not complete, the computer updating the defect report information, determining if the defect is reproducible, and recreating the defect in the case that the defect is reproducible.