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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2013
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeff Alan Zias, Los Altos, CA (US);
INTUIT INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
During a testing technique, a pre-defined set of tests associated with a software product may be performed on different instances or versions of the software product (such as versions that have different user interfaces) in associated virtual environments. Moreover, during a given test, subsets of a group of individuals may interact with a given version of the software product. Initially, the subsets may be selected based on attributes of the individuals, such as: age, gender, occupation, and/or education level. However, subsequently the results of the executed pre-defined set of tests may be used to update the subsets. Furthermore, the testing technique may be repeated until a termination criterion is reached, such as a target use case of one or more of the subsets. In this way, the testing technique may be used to perform permutation testing.