Patent ID: 8341538

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for reducing redundancies in quality-assurance reviews of graphical user interfaces, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of screenshots of a graphical user interface, wherein each screenshot within the plurality of screenshots represents a possible state of the graphical user interface; creating, for each screenshot within the plurality of screenshots: a fingerprint that uniquely identifies the screenshot by generating a cryptographic hash of the screenshot; a fingerprint that uniquely identifies a set of text contained within the screenshot by generating a cryptographic hash of the set of text contained within the screenshot; performing a consolidation operation that identifies, by comparing each screenshot fingerprint and each text fingerprint, at least one of: redundant screenshots within the plurality of screenshots; redundant sets of text within the plurality of screenshots; displaying, during a quality-assurance review of the graphical user interface administered by a quality-assurance engineer, only: non-redundant screenshots contained within the plurality of screenshots; and non-redundant sets of text contained within the plurality of screenshots.