OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM IN RESPONSE TO A SOFTWARE CHANGE

摘要

A method and associated systems that allow a computer system to optimize its performance when running a computer program after a characteristic of a variable of the computer program is changed. A processor of a computer system initially identifies a first generation of candidate components of the computer program that could possibly be affected by changing the characteristic and then confirms these identifications by analyzing one or more characteristics of the variable and of each identified component. The processor repeats this procedure, identifying in each iteration a next generation of program components that would be affected by varying a characteristic of any of the components confirmed in the current generation. This procedure repeats until the processor can confirm no additional previously unconfirmed components. The processor then considers the identified set of affected components in order to optimize its performance running the program after the variable's characteristic is changed.

主权项

1. A method for optimizing a performance of a computer system running a computer program after the program has undergone a change, the method comprising:
the computer system selecting, from a set of components of the computer program, a set of first-generation candidate components that have a likelihood of being affected by a varying of a characteristic of a variable comprised by the computer program; the computer system confirming that each component of a subset of the set of first-generation candidate components would actually be affected by the varying; and the computer system further selecting from the set of components of the computer program a set of next-generation candidate components, wherein a second-generation component of the set of next-generation candidate components is identified as having a likelihood of being affected by a change to any first-generation component of the subset of the set of first-generation candidate components.