Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
This is in response to Application filed 10/27/22. Claims 1 – 18 has been examined and is pending.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1 – 18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Kumar et al. US 20210374040 A1.
Regarding claims 1, 7, and 13, Kumar anticipates a computer-implemented method/computer program product/computer system for using computer vision to automatically generate a unit test case, the method comprising: converting a text file of a source code to an image file of the source code [0055, see performed on source code and converting between images and OCR recognition/hash code, and output formats including plain text];
inputting the image file to a neural network having been trained with source code images [0050, see trained using machine learning and neural networks];
identifying, by the neural network, elements in the image file [0050 – 0055];
generating, by the neural network, a resulting image including identified elements in the image file [0050 – 0055];
extracting the identified elements from the resulting image [0058, see extracting];
generating a text file including a key value map of the identified elements; and generating a scaffold of a unit test case, based on the key value map [0050 – 0058, see intelligent mapper].
Regarding claims 2, 8 and 14, the computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:
feeding the key value map to a unit test case generator; and wherein the unit test case generator creates the scaffold of the unit test case [0042, see test case and automation].
Regarding claims 3, 9 and 15, the computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:
receiving expected values in the scaffold and making the unit test case ready for use [0042 – 0053].
Regarding claims 4, 11 and 16, the computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the expected values are inputted by a user [0048, see user and making selections].
Regarding claims 5, 12 and 17, the computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the expected values are received from a second neural network, wherein the second neural network is trained by learning from users [0050 – 0058].
Regarding claims 6 and 18, the computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identified elements include functions, arguments of the functions, and variable types of inputs and outputs of the functions [0042 – 0048].
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/CHUCK O KENDALL/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2192
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