US 12,754,733 B2 · System and method that assists with automating software engineering tasks

Abstract

A system receives a request from a software developer's issue tracker to review an issue report which describes a software engineering task, and outputs the issue report to the issue tracker. The system receives the issue tracker's request for predicted source code changes for the software engineering task, retrieves context data which establishes the software engineering task's context, and transforms the context data to be compatible with the data format used to train a machine-learning model to assist with performing software engineering tasks. The machine-learning model uses the transformed context data to predict source code changes for the software engineering task. The system output the predicted source code changes for the software engineering task to the issue tracker. The system commits source code changes based on the predicted source code changes, as accepted by the issue tracker, to source code associated with the software engineering task.

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Dependent claims

A system that assists with automating software engineering tasks, the system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions, which
when executed, cause the one or more processors to:
output an issue report that describes a software engineering task;
retrieve context data that establishes a context for the software engineering task, in response to receiving a request to predict source code changes for the software engineering task;
transform the context data to be compatible with a data format used to train a machine-learning model;
predict, by the machine-learning model using the transformed context data, the source code changes for the software engineering task;
cause the predicted source code changes for the software engineering task to be displayed as selectable and expandable compact representations on a graphical user interface;
cause, in response to a selection of an individual compact representation, a corresponding section of the predicted source code changes to be displayed on the graphical user interface;
and
commit the displayed section of the predicted source code changes to source code in response to being accepted.

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A computer-implemented method that assists with automating software engineering tasks, the method comprising:

outputting an issue report that describes a software engineering task;
retrieving context data that establishes a context for the software engineering task, in response to receiving a request to predict source code changes for the software engineering task;
transforming the context data to be compatible with a data format used to train a machine-learning model;
predicting, by the machine-learning model using the transformed context data, the source code changes for the software engineering task;
causing the predicted source code changes for the software engineering task to be displayed as selectable and expandable compact representations on a graphical user interface;
causing, in response to a selection of an individual compact representation, a corresponding section of the predicted source code changes to be displayed on the graphical user interface;
and
committing the displayed section of the predicted source code changes to source code in response to being accepted.

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A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein to be executed by one or more processors, the program code including instructions to:

output an issue report that describes a software engineering task;
retrieve context data that establishes a context for the software engineering task, in response to receiving a request to predict source code changes for the software engineering task;
transform the context data to be compatible with a data format used to train a machine-learning model;
predict, by the machine-learning model using the transformed context data, the source code changes for the software engineering task;
cause the predicted source code changes for the software engineering task to be displayed as selectable and expandable compact representations on a graphical user interface;
cause, in response to a selection of an individual compact representation, a corresponding section of the predicted source code changes to be displayed on the graphical user interface;
and
commit the displayed section of the predicted source code changes to source code in response to being accepted.

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