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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Giriprasad Sridhara, Bangalore, IN;
Utkarsh Milind Desai, Bangalore, IN;
Srikanth Govindaraj Tamilselvam, Chennai, IN;
Senthil Kumar Kumarasamy Mani, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for assisting dependency migration are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes determining differences between a first version of a dependency used by a software application and each of a plurality of upgrade candidates, the plurality of upgrade candidates comprising at least one of: (i) one or more newer versions of the dependency and (ii) a substitute dependency; identifying, based on the determined differences for a given one of the upgrade candidates, one or more sections of code of the software application that need to be patched in order to be compatible with the given upgrade candidate; and generating a modified version of the software application for the given upgrade candidate that comprises one or more patches for at least a portion of the identified one or more sections of code.