ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,837, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Intelligent test plan generation and execution" was invented by Florian Geckeler (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems are directed to automatically generating and executing intelligent test plans. When a file containing source code for an application is changed, an intelligent test plan is generated that selects a subset of the available tests for the application. A dependency graph may be generated that shows which other files depend on the modified file, directly or indirectly. By running the tests for th...