Smart code editor for detecting and visualizing deviations

A non-transitory computer readable media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform:

• maintaining, in a database, a first deviation detection algorithm for evaluating values of a first deviation metric quantifying a deviation of a program instruction provided in a logical line of code in a code editor from a corresponding normative program instruction based on one or more other program instructions defined in the code editor, wherein the first deviation detection algorithm has been generated based on a first normative data set comprising source code for a first set of programs;
• obtaining, in the code editor, a plurality of logical lines of code defining a program or a part thereof;
• performing, for each of at least one of the plurality of logical lines of code in the code editor, the following:
• evaluating, using the first deviation detection algorithm, for a program instruction defined in a logical line of code at a given position in the program, a value of the first deviation metric based at least on one or more other program instructions defined in the plurality of logical lines of code,
• selecting a first color based on a value of a total deviation metric from a first colormap providing a mapping at least to all feasible values of the total deviation metric, wherein the value of the total deviation metric is defined to depend at least on the value of the first deviation metric, and
• coloring, in part or fully, at least one of a background of the logical line of code, a text of the logical line of code and at least one graphical element associated with the logical line of code in a graphical user interface of the code editor with the first color for indicating an extent of deviation of said logical line of code from a norm to a user of the computing device.

A method comprising:

• maintaining, in a database, a first deviation detection algorithm for evaluating values of a first deviation metric quantifying a deviation of a program instruction provided in a logical line of code in a code editor from a corresponding normative program instruction based on one or more other program instructions defined in the code editor, wherein the first deviation detection algorithm has been generated based on a first normative data set comprising source code for a first set of programs;
• obtaining, in the code editor, a plurality of logical lines of code defining a program or a part thereof;
• performing, for each of at least one of the plurality of logical lines of code in the code editor, the following:
• evaluating, using the first deviation detection algorithm, for a program instruction defined in a logical line of code at a given position in the program, a value of the first deviation metric based at least on one or more other program instructions defined in the plurality of logical lines of code,
• selecting a first color based on a value of a total deviation metric from a first colormap providing a mapping at least to all feasible values of the total deviation metric, wherein the value of the total deviation metric is defined to depend at least on the value of the first deviation metric, and
• coloring, in part or fully, at least one of a background of the logical line of code, a text of the logical line of code and at least one graphical element associated with the logical line of code in a graphical user interface of the code editor with the first color for indicating an extent of deviation of said logical line of code from a norm to a user of a computing device running the code editor.