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SOFTWARE PATCH EVALUATOR

  • US 20160259636A1
  • Filed: 03/06/2015
  • Published: 09/08/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for assessing an urgency of installing a patch for a defect in a component of a software application, the method comprising:

  • identifying a set of defective programming constructs of the component that will be altered by the patch when installed;

    collecting execution traces of programming constructs of the component in a context of application use;

    evaluating the execution traces to determine whether one or more defective programming constructs of the component that will be altered by the patch when installed are invoked in the context of application use; and

    ,based on the determination of the number of the defective programming constructs invoked, determine the urgency of installing the patch.

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