Patent ID: 7624394

Claim:
A machine-implemented method comprising: obtaining an install comparison of a current software installation to a target computer and an install comparison of a previous software installation to the same target computer in a series of two or more software installations during a software product development; generating a software trend comparison of the current software installation install comparison with the previous software installation install comparison; obtaining expected installation results for a resource including attributes including a dynamic attribute and a static attribute, the dynamic attribute is an attribute that should have changed between the previous software installation and the current software installation, the static attribute is an attribute that should remain unchanged between the previous software installation and the current software installation; comparing the expected installation results with the software trend comparison to identify whether the dynamic attribute was not changed in the current software installation and whether the static attribute was changed in the current software installation; and presenting potential problems with the current software installation, based on results of the comparing the expected installation results with the software trend comparison, to facilitate verification of an installer for the software product development.