US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 26 for "Automated tracking of consistent software test failures" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,200, issued on May 26, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Automated tracking of consistent software test failures" was invented by Daniel Joseph Sanders (McKinney, Texas), Wesley Mao (Murphy, Texas) and Stephen Richard Jones (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that includes a failed test detector and a task updater can automatically update tasks associated with consistent failures of software tests in a software development management platform. The failed test detector can use a set of evidence of test (EOT) files that indicate software testing results over a period of...