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Software debugging recommendations

US8910120B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

Gopal Ranganatha Srinivasa · Bengaluru, IN
Vipindeep Vangala · Hyderabad, IN
Balasubramanyan Ashok · Bellevue, US
Sriram K. Rajamani · Bengaluru, IN
Jacek A. Czerwonka · Redmond, US
Hongkang Liang · Sammamish, US
Joseph M. Joy · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 5, 2010
Grant date	Dec 9, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 18, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/00
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Software debugging recommendation technique embodiments are presented that generally entails creating a database of characterized software bug descriptions and providing software debugging recommendations from the database in response to a query. This can employ a two-phased approach in the search for similar software bugs. The first is a search phase that takes a query as input and returns a ranked list of software bug descriptions that match the query. These bug descriptions can contain a mix of structured and unstructured data. The second phase is a related-information phase that uses the output of the first phase to retrieve a set of related recommendations such as for people, source files, functions and binaries.

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