US 10,255,065 B1 · Automatically building software projects

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing automatic builds of snapshots using software packages with highly similar contents. One of the methods includes computing, by a source code analysis system, a respective similarity score between contents of a particular snapshot and contents of each software package of a plurality of software packages in one or more package repositories. A highest-scoring software package for the snapshot is determined using the computed similarity scores. An automatic build of the snapshot using the highest-scoring software package is performed, including identifying one or more dependencies and one or more build commands from the highest-scoring software package, installing the one or more dependencies in a build environment of the snapshot, and executing the one or more build commands in the build environment of the snapshot.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by a source code analysis system, a request to automatically build a snapshot of a software project;
obtaining, by the source code analysis system, a plurality of software packages from one or more package repositories;
computing, by the source code analysis system, a respective similarity score between contents of the snapshot and contents of each software package of the plurality of software packages;
determining a highest-scoring software package for the snapshot using the computed similarity scores;
and
attempting an automatic build of the snapshot using the highest-scoring software package, including:
identifying one or more dependencies and one or more build commands from the highest-scoring software package,
installing the one or more dependencies in a build environment of the snapshot, and
executing the one or more build commands in the build environment of the snapshot.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a source code analysis system, a request to automatically build a snapshot of a software project;
obtaining, by the source code analysis system, a plurality of software packages from one or more package repositories;
computing, by the source code analysis system, a respective similarity score between contents of the snapshot and contents of each software package of the plurality of software packages;
determining a highest-scoring software package for the snapshot using the computed similarity scores;
and
attempting an automatic build of the snapshot using the highest-scoring software package, including:
identifying one or more dependencies and one or more build commands from the highest-scoring software package,
installing the one or more dependencies in a build environment of the snapshot, and
executing the one or more build commands in the build environment of the snapshot.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Automatically building software projects

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