US 2020/0050431 A1Published application

Recommending development tool extensions based on usage context telemetry

OwnerRoshanak ZILOUCHIAN MOGHADDAM, Kai-Uwe MAETZEL +1inventors

InventorsRoshanak ZILOUCHIAN MOGHADDAM, Kai-Uwe MAETZEL, Ramya Achutha RAO

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Abstract

Extensions to add functionality to an extensible computing technology development tool are identified and recommended to developers based at least in part on which tool extensions are being intensively used by developers working in the same or similar usage contexts. Usage contexts are specified in terms of projects, workspaces, repositories, and optionally their branches, forks, clones, or remotes, for example. Telemetry data voluntarily provided from developer systems is gathered and processed at a backend system to produce a data structure listing some top (in terms of use) tool extensions. This data structure is provided to developer systems, to serve as a basis for automatically recommending top tool extensions to developers, e.g., when they open a project or a workspace. This automatic recommendation relieves developers of the burden of researching extensions to try and choose the ones most likely to help them efficiently and effectively develop implementations of computing technology.

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Dependent claims

A tool extension recommendation backend system, comprising:

a processor;
a memory in operable communication with the processor;
tool extension usage data which includes at least the following:
(a) tool extension user identifications which identify users of one or more tool extensions, (b) tool extension identifications which identify one or more tool extensions which have been used by one or more of the users, and (c) tool extension usage context identifications which identify usage contexts in which tool extensions have been used by one or more of the users;
top-extensions-by-context computation code which upon execution with the processor computes a top-extensions-by-context structure from at least part of the tool extension usage data, the top-extensions-by-context structure including entries, each entry naming a usage context and listing one or more tool extensions which the top-extensions-by-context computation code determines have been used intensively in that usage context;
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recommendation code which upon execution with the processor transmits at least a portion of the top-extensions-by-context structure onto a network connection toward at least one developer system, whereby the top-extensions-by-context structure will configure the developer system for improved developer productivity by recommendation of intensively used tool extensions to a developer for use in a usage context that is named in the top-extensions-by-context structure.

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A method for recommending a development tool extension, comprising:

obtaining tool extension usage data which includes at least the following:
(a) tool extension user identifications which identify users of one or more tool extensions, (b) tool extension identifications which identify one or more tool extensions which have been used by one or more of the users, and (c) tool extension usage context identifications which identify usage contexts in which tool extensions have been used by one or more of the users;
computing a top-extensions-by-context structure from at least part of the tool extension usage data, the top-extensions-by-context structure including entries, each entry naming a usage context and listing one or more tool extensions which the top-extensions-by-context computation determines have been used intensively in that usage context;
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displaying at least part of a list of one or more intensively used tool extensions to a developer in a recommendation for use in a usage context that is named in the top-extensions-by-context structure, thereby allowing the developer to avoid expending developer time and developer system resources on an effort to discover extensions which have been used intensively in the developer's current usage context.

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A storage medium configured with code which upon execution by one or more processors performs a method for recommending a development tool extension, the method comprising:

computing a top-extensions-by-context structure from tool extension usage data, the top-extensions-by-context structure including entries, each entry naming a usage context and listing one or more tool extensions which the top-extensions-by-context computation determines have been used intensively in that usage context, the tool extension usage data including at least the following:
(a) tool extension user identifications which identify users of one or more tool extensions, (b) tool extension identifications which identify one or more tool extensions which have been used by one or more of the users, and (c) tool extension usage context identifications which identify usage contexts in which tool extensions have been used by one or more of the users;
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displaying at least part of a list of one or more intensively used tool extensions in a recommendation for use in a usage context that is named in the top-extensions-by-context structure, thereby allowing a developer to avoid expending developer time and developer system resources on an effort to discover extensions which have been used intensively in the developer's current usage context.

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