Automated Code Generation Framework for Security and Performance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Developers face challenges in rapidly responding to business changes with robust solutions for enterprise applications and systems, requiring efficient security and performance testing within tight timeframes, and existing technologies lack effective automation for code generation and vulnerability management.

Innovation Solution

The iSPAC framework employs machine learning and natural language processing to automate code generation and security testing, integrating with IDEs to provide seamless development, deployment, and testing by analyzing software instructions, identifying relevant code snippets, and scoring them for relevance, thus enabling continuous development and threat management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If developers manually develop and test enterprise applications to ensure security and performance, then solution quality is improved, but development time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesolution qualityVSAvoiddevelopment time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service through automated code generation and security testing. The AI assistant automatically generates secure code snippets, performs security vulnerability detection, and executes performance testing without requiring manual developer intervention for these repetitive tasks, thus maintaining high solution quality while reducing development time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Manual mechanical processes of code writing, security scanning, and testing are replaced with an automated AI-driven system. The mechanical substitution involves using machine learning models to generate code, automated vulnerability detection algorithms to scan for security issues, and performance testing frameworks to evaluate application behavior, thereby improving efficiency without compromising quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Measurement precision

If security testing is performed manually on each application, then vulnerability detection accuracy is improved, but testing speed decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevulnerability detection accuracyVSAvoidtesting speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Manual security testing is replaced with automated vulnerability detection systems that use machine learning models trained on security patterns. These systems automatically scan code, identify vulnerable patterns, and prioritize risks, maintaining high detection accuracy while executing tests at machine speed across multiple applications simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses copying by replicating security testing patterns and vulnerability detection rules across multiple applications. Once security vulnerabilities and testing protocols are identified in one application, these patterns are copied and applied to other applications, maintaining consistent detection accuracy while significantly increasing testing throughput and speed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Reliability

If comprehensive security and performance testing is implemented, then application reliability is improved, but development cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveapplication reliabilityVSAvoiddevelopment cost
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The AI assistant provides multi-functionality by integrating code generation, security vulnerability detection, performance testing, and automated code review into a single unified system. This universal platform eliminates the need for separate tools and licenses for each function, reducing overall development cost while maintaining comprehensive application reliability through integrated testing and security measures

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3441875B1Intellectual automated security, performance and code generation framework
Publication Date: 2020.11.25 ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD
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AI summary

Implementations directed to providing a computer-implemented method for automating analytical model building for code snippets, the method comprising receiving software instructions indicating functionality of a software component, analyzing the software instructions through natural language processing to identify tags to characterize the software instructions and the functionality, performing a search, based on the identified tags, of relevant Internet sites to identify code snippets that address the functionality, scoring one or more of the identified code snippets based on a respective relevance to the functionality, based on the scoring of the one or more of the identified code snippets, determining that at least one of the code snippets has a score that meets a relevance threshold, and providing the at least one of the code snippets based on the determination that the at least one of the code snippets has the score that meets the relevance threshold.