Program verifying method and system
US6697965B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 14, 2000 |
| Grant date | Feb 24, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 25, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/3604
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A program development support system scans a program beforehand, extracts an essential process specification that should be actualized by an individual program and automatically extracts a part of the program that is not coincident with the process specification. A method of verifying an execution program executed by a computer for generating the execution program into blocks each including one or more processes and defined as a part of the program, which correspond to a verifying specification for verifying the program, generating a plurality of combinations of the two or more blocks as check route corresponding to the verifying the specification, and extracting the process corresponding to the verifying specification executed in a predetermined number or greater number of check routes, as a process specification that should be executed also in other check route.
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