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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2011
Applicants:
Andrew M. Precious, Duvall, WA (US);
Thomas A. Walton, Seattle, WA (US);
Anish Swaminathan, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Andrew M. Precious, Duvall, WA (US);
Thomas A. Walton, Seattle, WA (US);
Anish Swaminathan, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3672 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments enable automated testing of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) by abstracting API call signatures and processing the abstracted API call signatures utilizing one or more genetic algorithms. Utilizing the inventive approach, test cases are built and then analyzed using a genetic algorithm. This can be done to both identify problems, such as bugs, associated with the APIs, and/or to identify quality improvements.