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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

My own answer is as follows: The "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble published 27 July 2010 describes in detail performance testing in a Continuous Delivery pipeline. The ...
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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

Jez, Dan and myself published a paper at the Agile 2006 conference that covered this. The Deployment Production Line - Continuous Delivery
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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

Here's a video from 2011 of Chuck Rossi describing how they do exactly this at Facebook: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/30/facebook-source-code/
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Prior art request for WO2013115797A1 "Identifcation [sic] of a failed code change"

The Phoronix Test Suite has offered automated bisect support using Git in an automated manner since 2008~2009. Some of the details via http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=...
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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

In my web article on Continuous Integration I mention staged build / build pipeline and that you can use that to introduce performance testing into the regular build process. That first appeared when ...
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This Patent is for a process that that was invented by someone else

This involves two separate questions. Of course, the short answer to both is to discuss this with a patent attorney. But in any case… How can I protest this patent? This is still a patent application. ...
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Prior Art from 2002 for XML to XSD generation?

Note that this is only a patent application, not a patent grant. Looking into the Image File Wrapper (USPTO Public Pair database), you will find that this application was Abandoned on March 19, 2013 ...
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Has application US 13/346,940 been granted?

This patent received a final rejection on January 24, 2014 and was listed as abandoned on August 6, 2014. The examiner cited: Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as being unpatentable over ...
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Prior art request for WO2013115797A1 "Identifcation [sic] of a failed code change"

The following research paper from 1999 seems very related: Andreas Zeller. "Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why?" In Proceedings 7th European Software Engineering Conference / 7th ...
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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

These arts are already known for application:- US20100005341 Automatic detection and notification of test regression with automatic on-demand capture of profiles for regression analysis ...
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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

Note that I can't take credit - these are links sent to me by Jack Shirazi (author of Java Performance Tuning) when I asked him about prior art in this area. IBM (2003) describes the procedure, but ...
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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

Here's a DrDobb's article from 2008 talking about adding performance testing into a Continuous Integration environment: Continuous Integration and Performance Testing
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How can I determine the status of a patent application?

I would like to know whether this patent application was granted or not. Quick Info Every Patent application In US is provided with code tags which can be helpful to get quick information (not ...
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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

We (Dynatrace) have been talking and doing this for years. Back in 2010 we published the following blog post showing how we do this internally: Eating Our Own Dog Food: How dynaTrace does Continuous ...
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Can there be enforcement action in Europe for patents not yet granted?

Any Contracting State may prescribe that a European patent application shall not confer such protection as is conferred by Article 64. However, the protection attached to the publication of the ...
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Interactive Map - Is Apple trying to patent 40-year-old GIS methods? - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST

US Patent 4,428,057 from 1984, "Electronic Chart System" "An electronic chart system in which charts of the earth are stored in digital representation and communicated to the operator by a visual ...
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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

As early as 2007 this was common practice on projects at ThoughtWorks, where both, Jez and Dave, worked at the time. One example we talked about publicly is the project to rebuild the Guardian website,...
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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

I wrote a paper in 2002 which used the term 'continuous deployment': Making Web Services that work I believe this is the first written use of the term, though it was an obvious extension of ...
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Prior art request for WO2013115797A1 "Identifcation [sic] of a failed code change"

During the "5th Google Test Automation Conference" (October 28-29, 2010), Chirstian Couder presented a talk named "Git Bisect and Testing", where he describes the use of git-bisect as a way to find ...
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Application rejected at examination stage - How to proceed best?

I'll take a stab at answering this despite the vague language in your question, and the laws coming from an anonymous EU jurisdiction. The EU under the patent articles does in fact forbid software ...
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What is the difference between withdrawing an application (MPEP § 1308) and expressly abandoning an application to avoid publication (§ 1125)?

The text of the MPEP sections is pretty clear. They really are nothing alike. A key difference is it withdrawal is withdrawal from issue. MPEP 1308. It is only relevant after a Notice of Allowance. ...
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Can I sell beauty berry extract or essential oil or create a repellant if the isolate (callicarpenal) of a plant has been patented?

Looking in the USPTO Public Pair database, this patent application was abandoned on August 31, 2010, which means the claims and specification are now in the Public Domain and you are free to use their ...
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Prior art seems to exist

If you look at the priority date of the patent it is 30 January 2007. The conference paper was made available to the public in April 2007. By definition of prior art in the patent law, a document can ...
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Prior Art, an older Provisional Application and a new Patent Application (US 2014/0091685)

A Provisional Application is not considered to be publicly disclosed, as it never published. Therefore, it cannot serve as Prior Art because it is not generally accessible. The Provisional is there as ...
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A dangerous patent application may derail a simple technology to compost food waste. Please help

Here is a cyclical method of performing (what I think is) the method from 1985: https://www.google.com/patents/US4491522 He himself cites several patents that appear to be the method, he is ...
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A dangerous patent application may derail a simple technology to compost food waste. Please help

A few things you should know and research- I've just looked at the current claims, which are what is relevant. Generally, when the examiner rejects the application, they will narrow the scope of the ...
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A dangerous patent application may derail a simple technology to compost food waste. Please help

According to Public Pair, the application has been through a rejection or two. The applicant appears to be amending the application again (March 2015). All the details are viewable. Go to the USPTO ...
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US 2013/0272429, a patent application on calculating three checksums instead of one

Even if the obviousness of the basic idea is not enough to throw this out there should be plenty of prior art available [...] There is no such thing as "obviousness of the basic idea" in the absence ...
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Prior art request for WO2014027990 "Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline"

Few years ago we used this http://blogs.atlassian.com/2009/05/bamboo_jmeter_aggregator_getti/ to have baseline performance tests in CI/CD pipelines. This plugin existed in 2009 and can break builds ...
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Cloud Storage - Synchronizing output of streaming media data across devices (Accenture) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST

Really seems equivalent to this patent dated 2010 : Synchronized broadcast of streams (WO 2010079460 A1) With different playback devices, and synchronization with speed adjustment
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