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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:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 11, 2012
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jonathan Bnayahu, Haifa, IL;

Maayan Goldstein, Haifa, IL;

Dany Moshkovich, Haifa, IL;

Mordechai Nisenson, Haifa, IL;

Yahalomit Simionovici, Haifa, IL;

Shmuel Or, Haifa, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3676 (2013.01); G06F 8/10 (2013.01); G06F 8/75 (2013.01); G06F 8/73 (2013.01); G06F 8/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method that may include: building a dependencies graph representing dependencies between code elements of a computer code; associating portions of the computer code with corresponding design specifications or requirements derived from a design specifications document or a requirements document respectively which is associated with the computer code, to yield a design specifications or requirements-code tracing map; and analyzing the design specifications or requirements-code tracing map based on the dependencies graph to yield an ordered list of design specifications or requirements respectively, wherein the order is selected such that functional tests written for the computer code and addressing design specifications or requirements of a higher order, will yield a higher level of functional test coverage of the computer code in terms of design specifications or requirements.


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