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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2019
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Shubham Gupta, Jaipur, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method automatically refactor mature program code having interdependent features to remove instructions pertaining to features that are no longer used. To facilitate reduction of the number of feature dependencies to test, instrumentation data are analyzed to determine which of the available features are in actual use. A graph of feature dependencies is built based on the program configuration, and the program code is simulated, according to existing testing protocols, with various combinations of features disabled to determine whether the program continues to function without error. When features are found that can be safely removed, the codebase is automatically refactored to eliminate the implementing code corresponding to the features. The refactored code then may be further automatically retested and deployed into the production environment.