US 12,681,705 B2Granted

Identifying applications impacted by request-related attribute changes

AssigneeDell Products L.P.

InventorsShibi Panikkar, Sisir Samanta

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Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for identifying applications impacted by request-related attribute changes are provided herein. An example method includes obtaining one or more changes to an attribute of a first application, wherein the at least one attribute is used by one or more of a plurality of applications to process a request associated with the attribute; determining one or more other attributes used by the plurality of applications that are dependent on the attribute; generating a dependency model for the attribute based at least in part on the one or more other attributes and dependency relationships between the plurality of applications; identifying one or more of the plurality of applications that are impacted by the one or more changes to the attribute based on the dependency model; and initiating one or more automated actions based on the identified one or more applications.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

obtaining one or more changes to at least one attribute of a first application of a plurality of applications, wherein the at least one attribute is used by one or more of the plurality of applications to process a request associated with the at least one attribute;
determining one or more other attributes used by at least one of the plurality of applications that are dependent on the at least one attribute, wherein the determining comprises:
(i) extracting one or more rules from source code of at least one of the plurality of applications, wherein the one or more rules involve the at least one attribute and at least one of the other attributes;
and (ii) determining information describing at least one of an application programming interface and a message format used for communication between two or more of the plurality of applications, wherein the determined information comprises at least one of one or more function parameters and an order of the one or more function parameters;
generating a dependency model for the at least one attribute based at least in part on the one or more other attributes and dependency relationships between two or more of the plurality of applications;
identifying one or more other ones of the plurality of applications that are impacted by the one or more changes to the at least one attribute based at least in part on the dependency model, wherein the identifying comprises utilizing the determined information to determine whether the one or more changes affect a given one of the plurality of applications;
and
initiating one or more automated actions based at least in part on the identified one or more other applications;
wherein the method is performed by at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory.

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A non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device causes the at least one processing device:

to obtain one or more changes to at least one attribute of a first application of a plurality of applications, wherein the at least one attribute is used by one or more of the plurality of applications to process a request associated with the at least one attribute;
to determine one or more other attributes used by at least one of the plurality of applications that are dependent on the at least one attribute, wherein the determining comprises:
(i) extracting one or more rules from source code of at least one of the plurality of applications, wherein the one or more rules involve the at least one attribute and at least one of the other attributes;
and (ii) determining information describing at least one of an application programming interface and a message format used for communication between two or more of the plurality of applications, wherein the determined information comprises at least one of one or more function parameters and an order of the one or more function parameters;
to generate a dependency model for the at least one attribute based at least in part on the one or more other attributes and dependency relationships between two or more of the plurality of applications;
to identify one or more other ones of the plurality of applications that are impacted by the one or more changes to the at least one attribute based at least in part on the dependency model, wherein the identifying comprises utilizing the determined information to determine whether the one or more changes affect a given one of the plurality of applications;
and
to initiate one or more automated actions based at least in part on the identified one or more other applications.

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An apparatus comprising:

at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory;
the at least one processing device being configured:
to obtain one or more changes to at least one attribute of a first application of a plurality of applications, wherein the at least one attribute is used by one or more of the plurality of applications to process a request associated with the at least one attribute;
to determine one or more other attributes used by at least one of the plurality of applications that are dependent on the at least one attribute, wherein the determining comprises:
(i) extracting one or more rules from source code of at least one of the plurality of applications, wherein the one or more rules involve the at least one attribute and at least one of the other attributes;
and (ii) determining information describing at least one of an application programming interface and a message format used for communication between two or more of the plurality of applications, wherein the determined information comprises at least one of one or more function parameters and an order of the one or more function parameters;
to generate a dependency model for the at least one attribute based at least in part on the one or more other attributes and dependency relationships between two or more of the plurality of applications;
to identify one or more other ones of the plurality of applications that are impacted by the one or more changes to the at least one attribute based at least in part on the dependency model, wherein the identifying comprises utilizing the determined information to determine whether the one or more changes affect a given one of the plurality of applications;
and
to initiate one or more automated actions based at least in part on the identified one or more other applications.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.