US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Quickly identifying source code version causing regression" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,485, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Quickly identifying source code version causing regression" was invented by Ke Wen Lin (Shanghai), Xiong Hu Luo (Shanghai), Chaofan Qiu (Shanghai) and Li Rong Yi (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing source code change set commits to decrease time to identify software bugs in versions of a software project is provided. An initial order of relevant commits corresponding to the software project is determined in a priority queue based on a weight of each respective commit of the relevant commits. The initial order of the relevant c...