API Version Record Validation Across Team-Specific File Cases
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Solution Overview
Problem
Companies face challenges in tracking and ensuring the correct version of software applications across different systems used by various development, quality assurance, and release management teams, leading to difficulties in validating and deploying the correct components throughout the software application lifecycle.
Innovation Solution
A version management system that includes a repository of API calls to software file case systems, structured data resources for storing version records and entries, and storage resources for version management tools, ensuring accurate tracking and validation of software file cases and version-pair entries through API communication and existence checks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate systems are used by different teams (development, QA, release management), then each team can use specialized tools for their specific tasks, but it becomes difficult to track version information across all systems and ensure the correct component is used throughout the lifecycle
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized version management system that acts as an intermediary between multiple team-specific systems (development, QA, release management). This central system collects, standardizes, and correlates version information from various source systems using API calls, creating a unified view that maintains traceability across the entire software lifecycle while allowing teams to continue using their specialized tools.
Solution Approach 2:
The version management system performs multiple functions: it tracks versions across different teams and systems, validates component relationships, maintains version histories, and provides a unified interface for version information. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate tracking mechanisms for each team, eliminating information loss while preserving team-specific workflows.
2Reliability
If version information is tracked across multiple different systems, then comprehensive version tracking is achieved, but the complexity of managing and validating version data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments version tracking by organizing data into distinct version records, each associated with specific software file cases from different systems. Version-pair entries create discrete relationships between components, allowing the system to manage complex multi-system version data through structured, modular records rather than attempting to process all version information as a single undifferentiated dataset.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized version management system serves as an intermediary layer that handles the complexity of integrating data from multiple systems. It provides standardized API interfaces for collecting version information, automatically correlates versions across systems, and validates relationships, thereby shielding users from the underlying integration complexity while maintaining reliable comprehensive tracking.
3Measurement precision
If version validation is performed across multiple systems, then accuracy of component matching is improved, but the time and resources required for validation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary version validation by checking whether corresponding software file cases exist in multiple systems before finalizing version records. Version-pair entries are created and validated in advance, ensuring component matching accuracy is established early in the process rather than requiring time-consuming verification later during deployment or release activities.
Data Source
AI summary
A version management system can manage a set of application programming interface (API) calls to different software file case systems including a first software file case system and a second software file case system. In response to certain commands and functionality, the version management system obtains from the set of API calls to the different software file case systems, existence request rules corresponding to the first software file case system and the second software file case system so as to perform an existence check. In addition, the version management system enables version records to be set that have a first version number, a first software file case name, a second software file case name, environment name, and phase name.