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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark Alistair Wilson-Thomas, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Gustavo Araujo Soares, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter Groenewegen, Vancouver, CA;
Jonathan Preston Carter, Seattle, WA (US);
German David Obando Chacon, Kirkland, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Assisting automation of repeated edits of code by automated generation of rules that, when applied, perform code transformations. The transformations are synthesized while observing developers make repeated code edits, and automatically perform similar modifications as those observed. This synthesized transformation defines an initial state of code to which the transformation can be applied, and defines a modification from that initial state. A rule is then generated that includes a detector mechanism that, when selected, is configured to find locations in code that have the defined corresponding initial state of the corresponding transformation. Thus, the transformation may be applied to any code to which the rule is exposed.