ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,860, issued on March 3, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Static-dynamic integration" was invented by Gerald E. Sullivan (Roswell, Ga.), Justin Michael Alwine (Alpharetta, Ga.), Peter Thomas Blay (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Nidhi Govindram Kejriwal (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Testing software applications often requires a balancing of thoroughness versus the time and computing resources available to perform such tests. By performing a static analysis on candidate software source code and, from the static analysis, configuring a dynamic analysis component to execute the tests, allows for extr...