Patent ID: 8589880

Claim:
A method for identifying a software developer based on debugging information, the method comprising: automatically identifying a developer of a line of source code stored by the developer in a source code repository; determining a developer contact tag for the developer; automatically tagging the line of source code with the developer contact tag associated with the developer; compiling the line of source code into a set of executable code, the set of executable code comprising the developer contact tag in a format compatible for presentation with debug information produced from the executable code, the debug information comprising: a line number of the line of source code that was last executed; a function that includes the line of source code last executed; and a function that will be called next; generating a stack trace in response to a failure when compiling the source code, the stack trace comprising: an identifier of the function that includes the line of source code; a source code line number; and the developer contact tag; and determining the developer associated with the line of source code from the debug information by way of the developer contact tag.