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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Yang Peng, Shanghai, CN;
Xia Yu, Shanghai, CN;
Yuna Hou, Shanghai, CN;
Ramana Krishna Bhagavatula, San Ramon, CA (US);
Jie Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Yang Peng, Shanghai, CN;
Xia Yu, Shanghai, CN;
Yuna Hou, Shanghai, CN;
Ramana Krishna Bhagavatula, San Ramon, CA (US);
Jie Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
SUCCESSFACTORS, INC., South San Fancisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a framework for analyzing and determining the impact and importance of software code or method changes. In accordance with one aspect, invocations of methods are tracked by generating marking records. The marking records may be used to rebuild a call stack, which can be used to organize the methods to generate a calling dependency representation. The methods may then be ranked based on such calling dependency representation.