US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Predicting code coverage without execution" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,910, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Predicting code coverage without execution" was invented by Shubham Chandel (Seattle), Colin Bruce Clement (Seattle), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Michele Tufano (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code coverage prediction system utilizes a neural transformer model with attention to generate a sequence of coverage symbols given a focal method and a test case. The sequence of coverage symbols indicates whether a line of source code is covered by the test case, missed by the test case or unreachable. The sequence of...