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Mutation testing in parallel threads

US11797429B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · US

Inventors

Andrew L Pearson · Normal, US
Nate Shepherd · Bloomington, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 27, 2021
Grant date	Oct 24, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 27, 2041

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F11/368
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Mutation testing can indicate whether mutants of a software application, created by intentionally altering source code of the software application, are successfully “killed” by test cases executed against the mutants. Mutation testing can be performed via parallel threads by, within each parallel thread, modifying individual source code class files and recompiling the modified class files to generate and test mutants. Individual mutation test results produced within each of the parallel threads can be aggregated to generate an aggregated test result report that indicates overall testing metrics associated with the mutation testing across the parallel threads.

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