ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,438, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Mitigating regression test variability" was invented by Sweta Singh (Bangalore, India), Manish Anand (Irving, Texas) and Vaibhav Murlidhar Kulkarni (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computer processors identify one or more similar, historical regression tests and historical builds utilizing a computed similarity measure between a regressed build and one or more historical builds conducted on a same release cycle, wherein the identified one or more similar historical regression tests and historical builds are K clo...