ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,355, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Management of test case champions" was invented by Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.), Ryan Thomas Rawlins (New Paltz, N.Y.), Michael Terrence Cohoon (Fishkill, N.Y.) and John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Management of test case champions includes generating a plurality of fingerprints for a plurality of test cases, wherein each of the plurality of fingerprints is associated with one of the plurality of test cases and identifies a specific code path covered by its associated test case for a System Under Test (...