US Patent 7614043 Automated product defects analysis and reporting

An automation infrastructure which automatically analyzes software faults and/or bugs related to a product defect is provided. More particularly, the system can automatically analyze and detect symptoms in the forms of crash dump, memory leak, corruption and test issues etc. In accordance therewith, aspects can automatically search for and locate existing defect reports, if such existing reports are available. Moreover, aspects can automatically report new defects in a defect tracking database or other tracking mechanism.