System for modeling toolchains-based source repository analysis

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10503479-B2
Application number	US-201815972661-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 7, 2018
Priority date	May 7, 2018
Publication date	Dec 10, 2019
Grant date	Dec 10, 2019

Abstract

Examining source code repositories for indications of orthogonal technologies in actual use or of potential usefulness in the development and continuous delivery of the contents of the repositories.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer implemented method for modeling toolchains, in an environment comprising a toolchain fabric that manages a catalog of a plurality of tool brokers, each tool broker defining an object that represents a specific type of tool; provisions and configures tool integrations, each tool integration defining an object that represents a distinct instance of usage of a corresponding tool; and produces toolchains of tool integrations, each toolchain comprising a set of tool integrations and relationships between respective tool integrations, the computer implemented method comprising:
a computer engine receiving an identification of at least one repository from a user, a set of classifiers, and a catalog of the toolchain fabric comprising known, categorized tool brokers;
the computer engine identifying indicators of technologies in the at least one repository using at least one selected classifier from the set of classifiers;
the computer engine classifying, using an ontology, contents of the at least one repository according to the indicators of technologies identified;
the computer engine analyzing the catalog of the plurality of tool brokers, to identify a set of tools;
the computer engine generating a toolchain model comprising a mapping between the at least one repository and the plurality of tool brokers based upon an intersection of indicated technologies identified in the at least one repository and technologies supported by the set of tools identified, wherein a tool broker in the plurality of tool brokers supports a technology when a classification of the tool broker is equal to or more specific than a classification of a technology;
the computer engine updating the toolchain model to specify a configuration of tools in number and type for use with the set of repositories, wherein a given tool integration is governed by a tool broker in the plurality of tool brokers, and wherein a subset of the tool integrations represent an original set of repositories or clones thereof; and
the computer engine serializing the toolchain model into a toolchain template.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of generating a toolchain having at least one toolchain instance, using the tools identified by the toolchain template.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein identification of a set of tools by the engine comprises determining if the classification of at least one tool is equal to or more specific than the classification of the indicators of the technologies identified.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the toolchain template is a pattern for toolchains.

5. A computer program product for modeling toolchains by a computer comprising at least one processor, one or more memories, one or more computer readable storage media, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, in an environment comprising: a toolchain fabric that manages a catalog of a plurality of tool brokers, each tool broker defining an object that represents a specific type of tool;
provisions and configures tool integrations, each tool integration defining an object that represents a distinct instance of usage of a corresponding tool; and produces toolchains of tool integrations, each toolchain comprising a set of tool integrations and relationships between respective tool integrations, the program instructions executable by the computer to perform a method comprising:
receiving, by a computer engine, an identification of at least one repository from a user, a set of classifiers, and a catalog of the toolchain fabric comprising known, categorized tool brokers;
identifying, by the computer engine, indicators of technologies in the at least one repository using at least one selected classifier from the set of classifiers;
classifying, by the computer engine, using an ontology, contents of the at least one repository according to the indicators of technologies identified;
analyzing, by the computer engine, the catalog of the plurality of tool brokers, to identify a set of tools;
generating, by the computer engine, a toolchain model comprising a mapping between the at least one repository and the plurality of tool brokers based upon an intersection of indicated technologies identified in the at least one repository and technologies supported by the set of tools identified, wherein a tool broker in the plurality of tool brokers supports a technology when a classification of the tool broker is equal to or more specific than a classification of a technology;
updating, by the computer engine, the toolchain model to specify a configuration of tools in number and type for use with the set of repositories, wherein a given tool integration is governed by a tool broker in the plurality of tool brokers, and wherein a subset of the tool integrations represent an original set of repositories or clones thereof; and
serializing, by the computer engine, the toolchain model into a toolchain template.

6. The computer program product of claim 5 , further comprising the program instructions of: generating, by the computer engine, a toolchain using the tools identified by the toolchain template.

7. The computer program product of claim 5 , wherein identification of a set of tools by the computer engine comprises determining if the classification of the set of tools is equal to or more specific than the classification of the indicators of the technologies identified.

8. The computer program product of claim 5 , wherein the toolchain template is a pattern for toolchains.

9. A computer system for modeling toolchains, in an environment comprising: a toolchain fabric that manages a catalog of a plurality of tool brokers, each tool broker defining an object that represents a specific type of tool; provisions and configures tool integrations, each tool integration defining an object that represents a distinct instance of usage of a corresponding tool; and produces toolchains of tool integrations, each toolchain comprising a set of tool integrations and relationships between respective tool integrations, the computer system comprising a computer comprising at least one processor, one or more memories, one or more computer readable storage media having program instructions executable by the computer to perform the program instructions comprising:
receiving, by a computer engine, an identification of at least one repository from a user, a set of classifiers, and a catalog of the toolchain fabric comprising known, categorized tool brokers;
identifying, by the computer engine, indicators of technologies in the at least one repository using at least one selected classifier from the set of classifiers;
classifying, by the computer engine, using an ontology, contents of the at least one repository according to the indicators of technologies identified;
analyzing, by the computer engine, the catalog of the plurality of tool brokers, to identify a set of tools;
generating, by the computer engine, a toolchain model comprising a mapping between the at least one repository and the plurality of tool brokers based upon an intersection of indicated technologies identified in the at least one repository and technologies supported by the set of tools identified, wherein a tool broker in the plurality of tool brokers supports a technology when a classification of the tool broker is equal to or more specific than a classification of a technology;
updating, by the computer engine, the toolchain model to specify a configuration of tools in number and type for use with the set of repositories, wherein a given tool integration is governed by a tool broker in the plurality of tool brokers, and wherein a subset of th

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Brealey Christopher
• Taylor Christopher
• Cayne Joel
• Mulet Philippe
• Schacher Ritchard L
• Schmidt Thomas C

Classifications

• G06Q10/10

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title

• G06F8/10 Primary

  Requirements analysis; Specification techniques · CPC title

• G06F8/71

  Version control (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57); Configuration management · CPC title