Patent ID: 6993487

Claim:
A software code comments management system operating with and within a software code development environment and able to interact dynamically with the code segments, variables and characteristics, the system comprising: a multimedia user interface that includes a graphic user interface that responds to voice commands; a comment management component, for managing the comments; a speech recognition module operatively connected to said multimedia user interface; a database system for storing system data and control information; and an output mechanism for outputting the comments or comments-code interaction results; wherein said comment management component enables classifying comments into comments categories from the group comprising of: Help comments, Testing comments and Watch variable comments; wherein said testing comments are used for quality control programs including: integrating a test table structure with a comment object that specifies at least one test case for the code segment related to said comment; automatic processing of the actual result for each said at least one test case in run time; controlling the automatic test processing with the ability to plan to test all the cases, or part of them, or not to test at all; evaluation of the value expressions in each said at least one test case in run time; generating a test design document from said comment; and generating a test result report from said automatic processing of the actual result.