US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Automatic creation and execution of a test harness for workflows" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,900, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic creation and execution of a test harness for workflows" was invented by Michael Johnston (Dublin) and Vasileios Vasileiadis (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for automatically creating and executing a test harness for a workflow includes creating a workflow package including a version identification and a workflow graph definition and creating a workflow instance as a copy of the workflow package. The workflow instance is executed to generate output data and the output data is saved into the work...