Daniel Zelada Tam

US Patent:

20080086718, Apr 10, 2008

Filed:

Oct 10, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/548092

Inventors:

James E. Bostick - Cedar Park TX, US
Randolph M. Forlenza - Austin TX, US
Daniel Tam - Sunnyvale CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

717120

Abstract:

A Source Code Author Identifier (SCAI) automates the process of manually running a comparison to identify changes between versions of a source code file and associates identified changes with the author who made the change. After a developer identifies a segment of code in a first file, wherein the first file as a newer version of a second file, SCAI compares the segment of code in the first file to a corresponding segment of code in the second file. SCAI identifies the author of the first file whenever a difference is detected between the segment of code in the first file and the corresponding segment of code in the second file. SCAI displays the author of the first file next to the detected difference between the segment of code from the first file and the corresponding segment of code from the second file. SCAI can repeat the comparison across a plurality of versions of the file, comparing each version with the previously created version.