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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2001
Howard Justin Glaser, San Jose, CA (US);
Howard Justin Glaser, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided is a method, system, and program for enabling analysis of proposed changes to program statements in a source code file. A data structure is generated indicating a plurality of program statements affected by one of a plurality of selected program statements to change, wherein the data structure indicates a hierarchical relationship of the effect of program statements on one another resulting from changes to the selected program statements. The data structure is provided to a software development tool to enable a programmer to display information on the hierarchical relationship of the affect of the program statements on one another resulting from changes to the selected program statements.