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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jin Song Ji, Ponte Vedra, FL (US);
Ke Wen Lin, Shanghai, CN;
Qing Shan Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Yuheng Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for identifying a semantic difference between source code versions. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for identifying a semantic difference between source code versions, comprising: obtaining first debugging information of a first source code version and second debugging information of a second source code version respectively; determining, by comparing the first debugging information with the second debugging information, whether in the second source code version there exists a second function matching a first function in the first source code version; and identifying the semantic difference on the basis of a result of the determining. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a system for identifying a semantic difference between source code versions. By means of the present disclosure, a semantic difference between various source code versions can be identified rapidly and accurately.