US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Sept. 30 for "Runtime class recompilation during mutation testing" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,235, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Runtime class recompilation during mutation testing" was invented by Andrew L Pearson (Normal, Ill.) and Nate Shepherd (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In mutation testing, source code is mutated at various positions, and test suites are run against the original object code and each version of the mutated object code, to determine the quality of test suites against arbitrary changes in the object code. The present disclosure provides a mutation test manager configured to initialize multiple computing threads con...