US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 20 for "Performing CI/CD error analysis involving software products that are dependent upon each other" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,706, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Performing CI/CD error analysis involving software products that are dependent upon each other" was invented by Shu Jun Tang (Beijing), Jia Lin Wang (Beijing), Qi Han Zheng (Beijing), Yi Fan Wu (Beijing), Jing Jing Wei (Beijing), Zhi Li Guan (Beijing) and Yang Kang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for identifying a root cause of failures in a CI/CD pipeline. Tags for tasks, templates and/or variables of the operator and the CI/CD pipeline are extracted. Code of the tag...