Advanced and automatic analysis of recurrent test failures

A tangible machine-readable medium having a set of instructions detailing a method stored thereon that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform the method, the method comprising:

• identifying automatically a predecessor failure event in a test case run of an application process;
• comparing automatically the predecessor failure event to a failure pattern set;
• and
• filtering a test report of the test case run based on the failure pattern set.

A test case run analyzer, comprising:

• an input/output device that receives a test report of a test case run of an application process having a failure event and a failure context;
• a database interface that connects to a database storing a failure pattern set;
• and
• a processor that automatically identifies the failure event and the failure context, automatically compares the failure event to the failure pattern set, and filters the test report based on the failure pattern set.