US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Self diagnosing test suite using a double pair-wise combinatorial test solution" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,166, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Self diagnosing test suite using a double pair-wise combinatorial test solution" was invented by Dale E. Blue (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.), Ryan Thomas Rawlins (New Paltz, N.Y.) and Eitan Daniel Farchi (Pardes Hana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for testing and fault detection are disclosed. These techniques include generating a set of test cases for a system under test (SUT), the set of test cases based on attribute-value pairs modeled as input to the SUT. The techniques further include aug...