US 10,761,810 B2Granted

Automating testing and deployment of software code changes

AssigneeAccenture Global Solutions Limited

InventorsChitkala Ramakrishna, Jayanthi Mohanram, Satish Renugopal, Jyoti Derawal, Shetty Dhiraj, Peter Perbellini, Nair Arjun

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Abstract

A device creates tasks to implement a software code change in a software code and to generate new software code, and performs, via a development environment, a unit test on the new software code to generate a unit test result. The device performs, via the development environment, a functional test on the new software code to generate a functional test result, and updates, based on the unit test result and the functional test result, the new software code to generate updated new software code. The device performs, via a quality assurance environment, a regression test on the updated new software code to generate a regression test result, and updates, based on the regression test result, the updated new software code to generate final software code. The device automatically deploys the final software code in a production environment, and performs actions based on deploying the final software code.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving, by a device, information indicating a request for a software code change associated with software code;
creating, by the device, one or more tasks to implement the software code change in the software code and to generate new software code,
the software code including:
the new software code, and
other software code that was previously developed;
selecting, by the device, a unit test from a plurality of unit tests,
the unit test to be performed on the new software code;
performing, by the device and via a development environment, the unit test on the new software code to generate a unit test result;
selecting, by the device, a functional test from a plurality of functional tests,
the functional test to be performed on the new software code;
performing, by the device and via the development environment, the functional test on the new software code to generate a functional test result;
updating, by the device and based on the unit test result and the functional test result, the new software code to generate updated new software code;
automatically deploying, by the device, the updated new software code in a quality assurance environment;
selecting, by the device, a regression test from a plurality of regression tests,
the plurality of regression tests including one or more of:
another functional test to ensure that the other software code still performs correctly after the software code change,
a non-functional test to ensure that the other software code still performs correctly after the software code change, or
a test to determine whether the new updated software code affects other applications associated with the updated new software code,
wherein selecting the regression test comprises:
analyzing the other software code that is affected by the updated new software code to determine a testable unit of the other software code, and
selecting the regression test based on a quantity of inputs from the testable unit of the other software code, and
the regression test to be performed on the updated new software code;
performing, by the device and via the quality assurance environment, the regression test on the updated new software code to generate a regression test result;
updating, by the device and based on the regression test result, the updated new software code to generate final software code;
automatically deploying, by the device, the final software code in a production environment for execution;
and
performing, by the device, one or more actions based on deploying the final software code in the production environment.

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A device, comprising:

one or more memories;
and
one or more processors, communicatively coupled to the one or more memories, to:
receive information indicating a request for a software code change associated with software code;
create one or more tasks to implement the software code change in the software code and to generate new software code,
the software code including the new software code and other software code that was previously developed;
automatically deploy the new software code in a development environment for testing;
perform, via the development environment, a unit test on the new software code to generate a unit test result;
perform, via the development environment, a functional test on the new software code to generate a functional test result;
update, based on the unit test result and the functional test result, the new software code to generate updated new software code;
automatically deploy the updated new software code in a quality assurance environment for further testing;
select a regression test from a plurality of regression tests,
the plurality of regression tests including one or more of:
another functional test to ensure that the other software code still performs correctly after the software code change,
a non-functional test to ensure that the other software code still performs correctly after the software code change, or
a test to determine whether the new updated software code affects other applications associated with the updated new software code,
wherein the one or more processors, when selecting the regression test, are to:
analyze the other software code that is affected by the updated new software code to determine a function or testable unit of the other software code, and
select the regression test based on a quantity of inputs from the testable unit of the other software code;
perform, via the quality assurance environment, the regression test on the updated new software code to generate a regression test result;
update, based on the regression test result, the updated new software code to generate final software code;
automatically deploy the final software code in a production environment for execution;
and
perform one or more actions based on deploying the final software code in the production environment.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the one or more processors to:
create one or more tasks to implement a software code change in software code and to generate new software code,
the software code including the new software code and other software code that was previously developed;
automatically deploy the new software code in a development environment for testing;
perform, via the development environment, unit tests on the new software code to generate unit test results based on a quantity of inputs in testable units of the new software code;
perform, via the development environment, functional tests on the new software code to generate functional test results;
update, based on the unit test results and the functional test results, the new software code to generate updated new software code;
automatically deploy the updated new software code in a quality assurance environment for further testing;
analyze the other software code that is affected by the updated new software code to determine a function or testable unit of the other software code,
select regression tests, from a plurality of regression tests, based on a quantity of inputs from the testable unit of the other software code,
the plurality of regression tests including one or more of:
another functional test to ensure that the other software code still performs correctly after the software code change,
a non-functional test to ensure that the other software code still performs correctly after the software code change, or
a test to determine whether the new updated software code affects other applications associated with the updated new software code;
perform, via the quality assurance environment, the regression tests on the updated new software code to generate regression test results;
perform, via the quality assurance environment, the functional tests on the updated new software code to generate additional functional test results;
update, based on the regression test results and the additional functional test results, the updated new software code to generate final software code;
automatically deploy the final software code in a production environment for execution;
and
perform one or more actions based on deploying the final software code in the production environment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.