Automated-application-release-management subsystem that provides efficient code-change check-in

A method carried out in an automated-application-release-management subsystem within a cloud-computing facility having multiple servers, data-storage devices, and one or more internal networks, the method comprising:

• providing a dashboard user interface, an automated-application-release-management controller, an interface to a workflow-execution engine within the cloud-computing facility, an artifact-storage-and-management subsystem, and a set of test cases for each application managed by the automated-application-release-management subsystem;
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• automatically testing, by a code-change-check-in subsystem of the automated-application-release-management subsystem, a code-change submitted to the code-change-check-in subsystem by calling those test-case methods that call functions that provide code paths for functions modified by the code change.

A physical data-storage device that stores a sequence of computer instructions that, when executed by one or more processors within an automated-application-release-management subsystem within a cloud-computing facility having multiple servers, data-storage devices, and one or more internal networks, control the automated-application-release-management subsystem to:

• provide a dashboard user interface, an automated-application-release-management controller, an interface to a workflow-execution engine within the cloud-computing facility, an artifact-storage-and-management subsystem, and a set of test cases for each application managed by the automated-application-release-management subsystem;
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• automatically test, by a code-change-check-in subsystem of the automated-application-release-management subsystem, a code-change submitted to the code-change-check-in subsystem by calling those test-case methods that call functions that provide code paths for functions modified by the code change.