US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 3 for "Automatic generation of assert statements for unit test cases" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,449, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automatic generation of assert statements for unit test cases" was invented by Dawn Drain (Bellevue, Wash.), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.), Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Bellevue, Wash.) and Michele Tufano (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assert statement generator employs a neural transformer model with attention to generate candidate assert statements for a unit test method that tests a focal method. The neural transformer model is pre-trained with source code programs and natural language text and fine-tuned with test-as...