Automated Software Build System with Change Report Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The complexity of building modern software applications, involving multiple executable tasks, modules, and data files, often leads to errors and inefficiencies in the build process, particularly in manual builds, and existing code control systems lack comprehensive mechanisms for managing changes and approvals effectively.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a code control system, parser module, and compiler module that generates change reports and compiles code versions, integrated with a JAVA-based website interface and Jakarta ANT scripts, to manage software builds, enforce change policies, and automate the build process, ensuring efficient and error-free software creation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual build processes are used to manage software compilation and assembly, then flexibility in customization is improved, but error rate and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflexibility in customizationVSAvoiderror rate

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The build system performs self-validation through automated dependency resolution, configuration checking, and compilation verification. The system automatically detects errors in build scripts, resolves dependency conflicts, and validates configuration files without requiring manual intervention, thereby reducing error rates while maintaining flexibility through programmable build parameters.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements automated feedback loops where build results, error logs, and dependency analysis are automatically fed back into the build process. This enables real-time detection and correction of build issues, allowing the system to adapt and refine build configurations automatically, reducing errors while preserving customization capabilities through iterative optimization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If manual build processes are used, then customization flexibility is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflexibility in customizationVSAvoidtime consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of build requirements, dependency graphs, and configuration validity before actual compilation begins. Build metadata, dependency relationships, and configuration schemas are pre-validated and cached, enabling the system to quickly determine which components need rebuilding and skip unnecessary compilation steps, significantly reducing build time while maintaining flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The build system dynamically adjusts compilation strategies based on detected changes in source files, dependencies, or configurations. It automatically parallelizes independent build tasks, optimizes compilation order based on dependency analysis, and adapts build parameters in real-time, reducing time consumption while preserving customization through dynamic parameter adjustment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Reliability

If comprehensive code control mechanisms are implemented to manage changes and approvals, then software reliability is improved, but build process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesoftware reliabilityVSAvoidbuild process complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The code control system segments the build process into distinct, manageable phases: change detection, dependency analysis, configuration validation, compilation, and testing. Each phase has dedicated validation rules and approval checkpoints, making the complex control mechanisms modular and easier to manage. This segmentation allows comprehensive reliability checks without overwhelming complexity, as each segment can be independently configured and validated.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Productivity

If automated build processes are used, then time consumption is reduced, but adaptability to custom configurations decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebuild speedVSAvoidadaptability to custom configurations

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The automated build system implements a universal configuration framework that can handle multiple build types, customization scenarios, and project structures through a single unified interface. It supports various compilation modes, dependency management strategies, and validation rules within the same automated pipeline, enabling fast automated builds while maintaining high adaptability to custom configurations through parameterized build scripts and flexible configuration schemas.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS7437712B1Software build tool with revised code version based on description of revisions and authorizing build based on change report that has been approved

Publication Date: 2008.10.14 T MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC

AI summary

A system for managing software builds is provided. The system comprises a code control system operable to maintain a code version and a information associated with the code version, a parser module in communication with the code control system, the parser module operable to parse the information associated with the code version and create a change report, and a compiler module in communication with the code control system and operable to compile the code version into an object version based on the change report. A method of managing software builds is also provided. A method for building a software version is also provided.