US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on April 22 for "Retrying failed test cases in software testing using parallel threads" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,417, issued on April 22, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Retrying failed test cases in software testing using parallel threads" was invented by Shaktiraj Chauhan (Normal, Ill.) and Nate Shepherd (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Test cases written to test a software application can be dynamically distributed among different sets of test cases that can be executed simultaneously in different parallel threads, thereby speeding up testing relative to executing the test cases sequentially in a single thread. Although executing the test cases in parallel threads can cause the...