US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Code coverage measurement for test systems" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,934, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Code coverage measurement for test systems" was invented by Colin R. Penfold (Ropley, Great Britain), Darren R. Beard (Chandlers Ford, Great Britain), Michael John Fish (Eastleigh, Great Britain) and Jeremy Weaving (Romsey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for code coverage for test systems for testing source code. The method obtains a trace with trace records written at entry and exit to one or more test modules for function calls to the test modules. The method compares response codes for the...