Custom Code Maintenance Scoring via Metadata Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Business systems face challenges in managing and maintaining custom code modules, as they often lack awareness of their existence, ownership, and integration into lifecycle maintenance programs, leading to unsupported and unmanaged code that poses risks to system stability and support.
Innovation Solution
A method is introduced that involves receiving metadata about custom code modules, applying rules from a template to calculate a score representing the degree of maintenance, using a score calculator module to assess transparency, ownership, and integration, and providing the score to a user interface, thereby enhancing awareness and management of custom code within the business system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If custom code modules are developed by end-users or third parties, then system flexibility and adaptability improve, but awareness of code existence and ownership deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically queries the custom code library to obtain metadata about custom code modules and provides feedback to users through a user interface, enabling awareness of code existence, location, and ownership without requiring manual tracking
Solution Approach 2:
The score calculator module automatically calculates maintenance scores based on retrieved metadata and applies rules from a rules template, eliminating the need for manual assessment and providing self-service monitoring of code maintenance status
2Adaptability or versatility
If custom code modules are integrated into the business system, then functionality improves, but integration into lifecycle maintenance program deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system retrieves metadata including integration information from the custom code library and provides feedback through calculated maintenance scores, enabling automatic assessment of whether code is integrated into the lifecycle maintenance program
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the state of maintenance assessment from manual to automated by calculating numerical scores based on metadata parameters such as owner assignment, integration status, and maintenance program inclusion
3Loss of information
If manual tracking of custom code is performed, then ownership awareness improves, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The score calculator module automatically retrieves metadata from the custom code library, applies rules from a rules template, and calculates maintenance scores without manual intervention, eliminating time-consuming tracking while maintaining comprehensive ownership awareness
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual tracking mechanisms with automated computational processes that query databases, process metadata, and generate scores through algorithmic evaluation of maintenance criteria
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AI summary
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for code scoring. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving metadata including information representative of at least one custom code module used in a business system; receiving at least one rule from a rules template; and calculating, based on the received metadata and the received at least one rule, a score representative of whether the at least one custom code module is maintained. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.