Patents by Inventor Thomas Anthony MacDougall

Thomas Anthony MacDougall has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Code Breakage Detection Using Source Code History Background
    Publication number: 20120110549
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented process for detecting code breakage using source code change history receives a point in time within an identified range of time to form a selected time, receives a set of source files associated with the a selected time, receives a set of history files associated with the received set of source files and initializes a workspace in a sandbox using the set of source files and the set of history files. The computer-implemented process incrementally executes the received set of source files from the selected time forward, determines whether a code break occurs and responsive to a determination that the code break occurs, presents a list of files. The computer-implemented process receives an identified file from the list of files to form a suspect file, and receives a correction for the suspect file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven John Earl Gutz, Thomas Anthony MacDougall, Mohammed Mostafa