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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
May. 11, 2015
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Marat Boshernitsan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andreas Kuehlmann, Berkeley, CA (US);
Scott McPeak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip Chong, Berkeley, CA (US);
Tobias Welp, Berkeley, CA (US);
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided to evaluate impact of a change to code of a depended upon component of a system stored in a computer readable storage device, upon a dependent component of the system, the method comprising: identifying a dependency relationship between a first component stored in a computer readable storage device and a second component stored in the computer readable storage device; in response to a determination that the second component depends upon the first component, configuring a computer system to obtain a first property evaluation corresponding to the first component; and in response to obtaining the first property evaluation corresponding to the first component, configuring the computer system to associate the first property evaluation with the second component, and obtain a second property evaluation corresponding to the second component, wherein the second component is associated with the first property evaluation.