US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 18 for "Identification of related test cases and overlapping code under test" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,025, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identification of related test cases and overlapping code under test" was invented by Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.) and Michael Terrence Cohoon (Fishkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for system testing. A code base is accessed. A first section of the code base that is explicitly covered by a first test case is identified. A second section of the code base is modified, where the second section is not explicitly covered by the first test case. The first test case is executed on the code base with the modific...