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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2008
Mark Andrew Alkins, Durham, NC (US);
Denny Pichardo, Raleigh, NC (US);
Martin Joseph Clayton Presler-marshall, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Hunter K. Presnall, Cary, NC (US);
Mark Andrew Alkins, Durham, NC (US);
Denny Pichardo, Raleigh, NC (US);
Martin Joseph Clayton Presler-Marshall, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Hunter K. Presnall, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Detection of redundant or duplicate method calls in a running program is provided. One or more methods can be selectively called when a program is running. Specified data is collected each time that a call to a given one of the methods occurs, wherein a given call to the given method is associated with a set of arguments comprising one or more particular argument values for the given method. The collected data includes an element uniquely identifying each of the particular argument values. The collected data is stored at a selected location, and a call threshold is selected for the given method, wherein the call threshold comprises a specified number of occurrences of the given call to the given method. The collected data is selectively analyzed at the storage location, to determine whether an occurrence of the given call to the given method has exceeded the call threshold.