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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2008
Daniel Citron, Haifa, IL;
Itzhack Goldberg, Hadera, IL;
Moshe Klausner, Ramat Yishay, IL;
Marcel Zalmanovici, Kiriat Motzkin, IL;
Daniel Citron, Haifa, IL;
Itzhack Goldberg, Hadera, IL;
Moshe Klausner, Ramat Yishay, IL;
Marcel Zalmanovici, Kiriat Motzkin, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A novel and useful apparatus for and method of associating a dedicated coverage bit to each instruction in a software system. Coverage bits are set every time the software application runs, enabling a more comprehensive and on-going code coverage analysis. The code coverage bit mechanism enables code coverage analysis for all installations of a software application, not just software in development mode or at a specific installation. Code coverage bits are implemented in either the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the central processing unit, the executable file of a software application, a companion file to the executable file or a code coverage table residing in memory of the computer system.