Patent ID: 8387012
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer apparatus comprising: a main memory; a querier held in the memory and executable by a processor in a manner which queries for a software function call towards determining spatial locality of where the function call occurs in one version of a source file; said querier further acting to query for a scope of review of the function call; a determiner held in the memory and executable by the processor in a manner which computes deltas in the spatial locality of where the function call occurs in different versions of the source file, the different versions including the one version; and a computer display responsive to the processor and displays to a user the computed deltas in spatial locality of where the function call occurs in different versions of the source file as indicative of changes in usage of the function call, said computed deltas in spatial locality being different from absence of occurrence of the function call in a spatial locality in the one version of the source file relative to occurrence of the function call in corresponding spatial locality in different versions of the source file.