ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,296, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated software testing using chaos engineering" was invented by William Tigard Baker (Redmond, Wash.), Dallas Allen Warren (Redmond, Wash.), Aaron Edward Dietrich (Kirkland, Wash.) and Piyush Gupta (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include methods and systems for performing automated software testing using chaos engineering. An exemplary method can include obtaining a plurality of fault scenarios and executing a test script on software under test during application of each of the plurality of faul...