Dominant-state-based coverage metric

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PATENT NO 8856755
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13751088

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A method, apparatus and product for dominant state based coverage metric. The method comprising: determining whether all possible states of a computer program were examined based on an analysis of states that were examined excluding controlled states that are dominated by a self-dominating states; wherein the controlled states are associated with a controlled nodes in a control flow graph of the computer program, wherein the self-dominating states are associated with a self-dominating node in the control flow graph; wherein each execution path in the control flow graph that reaches the controlled nodes also includes the self-dominating node; and wherein there exists an execution path in the control flow graph that both starts and ends at the self-dominating node and further includes at least one controlled node.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chockler, Hana Haifa, IL 15 112
Pidan, Dmitry Netanya, IL 10 43
Ruah, Sitvanit Rehovot, IL 8 55
Yorav, Karen Haifa, IL 7 35

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