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Software testing is an engineering subject and similar to any other engineering field testing also have immense opportunities for researching and inventing new things. On this section of the website, TestingGeek will try to give you some information on the research happening in software testing field and patents or intellectual property filed in the software testing field. Before dwelling deep into the subject, lets discuss what is research and patent. According to Wikipedia "Research is an human activity based on the intellectual investigation and aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising human knowledge on different aspects of the world. Research can use the scientific method, but need not do so" If you relate this definition of research to software testing, their are plenty of aspects in software testing which require further research, which require revision of our existing knowledge. This could be how we look at the process of testing or how do we perform testing. You can even research skills required to become a better tester. More information on various topics for research in software testing, and people/organizations working on this can be found on Software Testing Research page. Similarly patents can be defined as "A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of an invention. The person applying for a patent does not need to be the inventor who created or authored the invention" There are many organizations, who invest millions of dollars in research to generate intellectual property rights or patents for themselves. Software Testing is relatively new field and offers many opportunities to do research and generate intellectual property for you or your organization. Most of the time in Software Testing, it is difficult to find out whether particular activity, approach or solution can be patented or not. To help you decide whether something is patentable or not, TestingGeek is working on compiling a list of patents related to software testing. This list should give you good information on what is already patented and most importantly what can be patented. More information about patents are available at Software Testing Patents page. Hope this section gave you good information on Software Testing Research & Software Testing Patents. You can leave your feedback on these topics at feedback section. You might find Testing Article and Testing Blog section useful as well.
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