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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1999
Thomas J. Pavela, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for code coverage management is provided, wherein code coverage data, which may be stored in a database, is updated or resequenced with the code changes. This resequencing eliminates the need to freeze the program code while collecting the code coverage data. When a code change is incorporated into the system the resequencing routine makes the necessary adjustments to the code coverage data. Furthermore, building a table in a database to store code coverage data for every test case may not be feasible. Thus, in accordance with the present invention, the last column of the table may contain a pointer to a file. The file then contains the list of test cases that exceeded the table.