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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Joseph William Ligman, Wilton, CT (US);

Marco Pistoia, Amawalk, NY (US);

Gegi Thomas, Piermont, NY (US);

Omer Tripp, Bronx, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3676 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and method for testing an application includes performing a static analysis of metadata of coding of an application, using a test application program executed by a processor on a computer. Available user interface states are simulated based on the static analysis. A configuration file of the application is accessed and parsed to enumerate states possible for the application. A coverage metric is calculated for the application based on a number of states reached by the simulating and a number of states possible.


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