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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2005
Fabian F. Morgan, Austin, TX (US);
Brent Russel Phillips, Austin, TX (US);
Fabian F. Morgan, Austin, TX (US);
Brent Russel Phillips, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention is an improved integrated development environment (IDE). In particular, the improved IDE comprises a text editor, a source code analyzer, a rule database, and a solution database. The rule database stores source code patterns that represent classes of bugs, while the solution database stores source code patterns that represent corresponding alternative source code that corrects the bugs. The source code analyzer dynamically evaluates source code as a programmer develops the source code in the text editor, periodically comparing source code with the patterns in the rule database. If the source code analyzer matches a pattern with any source code, the source code analyzer displays the corresponding source code pattern from the solution database. The source code analyzer further gives the programmer the option to select the source code pattern from the solution database, at which time the editor changes the source code to conform to the appropriate pattern.