Elapsed time indications for source code in development environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10649873-B2
Application number	US-201916276353-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 14, 2019
Priority date	Dec 22, 2014
Publication date	May 12, 2020
Grant date	May 12, 2020

Abstract

Method and system are provided for providing elapsed time indications for source code in a development environment. The method includes: defining blocks of source code to be timed during source code execution; monitoring defined blocks of source code during execution to determine an elapsed time for the execution of the defined block of source code; recording the elapsed time for a defined block of source code; and providing an elapsed time indication for the defined block of source code.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
importing, by one or more processors, source code, into an integrated development environment;
defining, by the one or more processors, blocks of the source code to be timed during source code execution in the integrated development environment, wherein the defining comprises setting breakpoints in the source code to differentiate the blocks, wherein each block comprises a line of the source code;
executing, by the one or more processors, the source code, in the integrated development environment repetitively;
monitoring defined blocks of the source code during the repetitive executing to determine, for each iteration, an elapsed time and an average elapsed time for the execution of each defined block of the defined blocks of the source code and a standard deviation for each defined block of the defined blocks;
annotating a specific defined block of the source code of the defined blocks of source code with the average elapsed time for the specific defined block of the source code and the standard deviation for the specific defined block of the source code; and
subsequent to the annotating, executing, the specific defined block of the source code in the integrated development environment, wherein the executing comprises:
providing an elapsed time indication for the elapsed time for the specific defined block of the source code by displaying the elapsed time indication in a graphical user interface of the integrated development environment; and
displaying, in the graphical interface, an alert, if the elapsed time exceeds the average elapsed time for the specific defined block of the source code by greater than the standard deviation for the specific defined block of the source code;

determining, by the one or more processors, that the source code has been changed by a compiler; and
resetting, by the one or more processors, the average elapsed time based on the changed source code, wherein the resetting comprises adjusting the average elapsed time for each of the defined blocks of the changed source code.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the elapsed time further comprises representing the source code as an abstract representation.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , further comprising:
recording the annotation as metadata for the specific defined block in the abstract representation.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the one or more processors, that the elapsed time for the specific defined block of source code differs by a threshold amount from an elapsed time of a previous iteration for the specific defined block of code; and
providing, by the one or more processors, an alert based on the determining.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the monitoring comprises parsing the source code during the executing.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising resetting the method when the source code is run on a different hardware environment.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the executing is in a debugging mode, further comprising:
allowing for user input in timing values of the blocks in the source code.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the source code changed by the compiler comprises the source code in a different computing language.

9. A system, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories, wherein the system performs a method comprising:
importing, by the one or more processor, source code, into an integrated development environment;
defining, by the one or more processors, blocks of the source code to be timed during source code execution in the integrated development environment, wherein the defining comprises setting breakpoints in the source code to differentiate the blocks, wherein each block comprises a line of the source code;
executing, by the one or more processors, the source code, in the integrated development environment repetitively;
monitoring defined blocks of the source code during the repetitive executing to determine, for each iteration, an elapsed time and an average elapsed time for the execution of each defined block of the defined blocks of the source code and a standard deviation for each defined block of the defined blocks;
annotating a specific defined block of the source code of the defined blocks of source code with the average elapsed time for the specific defined block of the source code and the standard deviation for the specific defined block of the source code; and
subsequent to the annotating, executing, the specific defined block of the source code in the integrated development environment, wherein the executing comprises:
providing an elapsed time indication for the elapsed time for the specific defined block of the source code by displaying the elapsed time indication in a graphical user interface of the integrated development environment; and
displaying, in the graphical interface, an alert, if the elapsed time exceeds the average elapsed time for the specific defined block of the source code by greater than the standard deviation for the specific defined block of the source code;

determining, by the one or more processors, that the source code has been changed by a compiler; and
resetting, by the one or more processors, the average elapsed time based on the changed source code, wherein the resetting comprises adjusting the average elapsed time for each of the defined blocks of the changed source code.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein displaying the elapsed time further comprises representing the source code as an abstract representation.

11. The system of claim 9 , the method further comprising:
recording the annotation as metadata for the specific defined block in the abstract representation.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the monitoring comprises parsing the source code during the executing.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the system further performs resetting the method when the source code is run on a different hardware environment.

14. A computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
importing, by the one or more processor, source code, into an integrated development environment;
defining, by the one or more processors, blocks of the source code to be timed during source code execution in the integrated development environment, wherein the defining comprises setting breakpoints in the source code to differentiate the blocks, wherein each block comprises a line of the source code;
executing, by the one or more processors, the source code, in the integrated development environment repetitively;
monitoring defined blocks of the source code during the repetitive executing to determine, for each iteration, an elapsed time and an average elapsed time for the execution of each defined block of the defined blocks of the source code and a standard deviation for each defined block of the defined blocks;
annotating a specific defined block of the source code of the defined blocks of source code with the average elapsed time for the specific defined block of the source code and the standard deviation for the specific defined block of the source code; and
subsequent to the annotating, executing, the specific defined block of the source code in the integrated develo

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Cox Benjamin D
• Craggs Daniel P
• Poole Christopher J

Classifications

• G06F11/3644

  by instrumenting at runtime · CPC title

• G06F11/3466

  Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring · CPC title

• G06F2201/865

  Monitoring of software · CPC title

• G06F11/34 Primary

  Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation {; Recording or statistical evaluation of user activity, e.g. usability assessment} · CPC title

• G06F11/3419 Primary

  by assessing time · CPC title