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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsMark Anthony Jelf DOWNIE, Jackson DAVIS, Thomas LAI, Andrew Richard STERLAND, Wai Hang ("Barry") TANG, Nikolaus KARPINSKY
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Embodiments improve software defect diagnosis. Analytic focus is automatically walked back from an initial symptomatic diagnostic context to a previous diagnostic context that is closer to underlying causes. Diagnosis may obtain diagnostic artifacts such as traces or dumps, extract diagnostic context, decompile executables, lookup likely causes based on symptoms, scan logs, and submit diagnostic context to software analysis services. An analysis service may perform static analysis, security testing, symptom-pair lookups, or antipattern scanning, for example, and may include a neural network or other machine learning model, for example. Root causes are culled from analysis results and identified to a software developer. Changes to mitigate the defect's impact are suggested in some cases. Thus, the software developer receives debugging leads without manually navigating through all the tool interfaces or unrelated details of diagnostic contexts. This allows the developer to more efficiently reach a useful diagnosis of defects, even for unfamiliar issues.
A system for identifying causes of computing functionality defects, the system comprising:
A method for identifying causes of computing functionality defects, the method comprising automatically:
A computer-readable storage medium configured with data and instructions which upon execution by a processor cause a computing system to perform a method for identifying causes of computing functionality defects in a program, the method comprising:
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