Code reusability

US10545733B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• HCL Technologies Limited · IN

Inventors

• Navin Sabharwal · New Delhi, IN
• Amit Agrawal · Noida, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 25, 2018
• Grant date: Jan 28, 2020
• Expiry date: Jul 26, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06N3/096
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed is a system for facilitating reusability of a code snippet during development of a software application. Initially, a plurality of tokens is extracted, by using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based syntactic analysis, from a sequence of lines of code entered by a developer. Further, each token of the plurality of tokens is converted into a vector by using a neural word embedding technique. Subsequently, a context of the plurality of tokens is determined by using a deep autoencoder neural network technique. Furthermore, at least one code snippet is recommended from a plurality of code snippets corresponding to the context. To do so, the context is compared with a plurality of contexts by using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network (Deep RNN) technique. Upon comparison, a confidence score is computed for each code snippet. Finally, the at least one code snippet is selected based on the confidence score.