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Enforcing alignment of approved changes and deployed changes in the software change life-cycle

  • US 8,234,713 B2
  • Filed: 12/17/2009
  • Issued: 07/31/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method to be executed by a processor, comprising:

  • intercepting a host content change request indicating a change to a persistent object on a host computer;

    determining whether the change is authorized, as indicated by a set of change authorization policies;

    allowing the change to take effect when the change is authorized;

    blocking the change from taking effect when the change is not authorized;

    logging information about the host content change request;

    obtaining a log representing a set of host content change requests;

    comparing the log to a set of approved change orders for any one or more of a plurality of persistent objects on the host computer;

    identifying at least one correlation between the set of host content change requests and the set of approved change orders; and

    providing user-readable data representing the at least one correlation,wherein the set of change authorization policies is configurable to define whether the persistent object can be changed.

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