Determining Similarities in Computer Software Codes for Performance Analysis

摘要

A computer-implemented comparison method for use in analyzing the performance of computer software code comprises converting values of profiling metrics obtained from at least one software profiling tool relative to at least one computer software code into images using a profiling metric conversion process. The conversion process may include identifying a set of profiling metrics with synonymous identifiers within a plurality of designated profiling metrics whose values are to be converted, using at least one natural language processing system, matching all profiling metrics in the set to the same identifier, and, for each set of profiling metrics, converting values corresponding to the profiling metrics in the set into respective images such that all converted images have the same image format. The comparison method further includes calculating similarities and / or differences between at least two of the images, and comparing the performance of the computer software code (s) corresponding to the two images based on the results of the conversion.