US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 13 for "Test conflict guard for parallel software testing" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,893, issued on May 13, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Test conflict guard for parallel software testing" was invented by Shaktiraj Chauhan (Normal, Ill.) and Nate Shepherd (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In association with unit and integration testing of a software application, a test conflict guard can detect whether test cases are independent and use distinct database data, or are related or dependent test cases that use the same database data. The test conflict guard can detect any related or dependent test cases in a group of test cases, which may cause testing ...