ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,623, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Automatic metamorphic testing" was invented by Alisa Ooka (Fujimino, Japan), Futoshi Iwama (Tokyo), Issei Yoshida (Setagaya-ku, Japan) and Sachiko Yoshihama (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer hardware and/or software that performs the following operations: (i) identifying a test input for a system under test, the system under test configured to determine a strength of a relationship between received inputs; (ii) determining, from a data store of potential inputs, a set of inputs for which the strength of the relationsh...