US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Objective-driven test cases and suites" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,871, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Objective-driven test cases and suites" was invented by Wu Song Fang (Beijing), Xin Zheng (Beijing), Ji Dong Li (BeiJing) and Shan Shan Cai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An objective-driven test case generation system includes an atomic test case module, a test data module, a tailoring module and a functional test case module. The atomic test case module generates a plurality of atomic test cases and stores the atomic test cases in an atomic test case library. The test data module receives a business model, determines one or more te...