Oracle Corporation
Techniques for tracking and testing code modifications using semantic catalogue

Abstract:

Techniques are described for building a semantic catalogue including a set of semantic objects. A semantic object may be used to map a granularity (e.g., a level of abstraction) and a semantic characteristic (e.g., a meaning or interpretation) to one or more code segments (e.g., a range of lines of code) of executable source code. An application development system may track modifications to the executable source code in terms of semantics using the semantic catalogue. Additionally, the application development system may execute test suites designed based on the semantic catalogue to detect semantic-related errors, semantic relationships between multiple semantic objects, or inconsistencies with semantic objects.