Computer implemented system and method for comparing at least two visual programming language files

• US 9,916,315 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2015
• Issued: 03/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kothandam, Jayanthi, Rajendrababu, Geethalakshmi, Chinnaraju, Samundeeswari
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cam-Linh
• Application Number:
  US14/740,858
• Publication Number:
  US 20150370819A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 707722, 707758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/148 File search processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/194 Calculation of difference between files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/221 Parsing markup language streams streaming G06F40/149
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

A computer implemented system for comparing at least two visual programming language files, the system comprising an intransient repository, a user interface, an authentication module, a menu driven selector module, an extractor module, a transient repository, a processor and a report generation module. A computer implemented method for comparing at least two visual programming language files, the method comprising the steps of verifying login credentials of a user, identifying a file type, identifying a file format, identifying file path to the files stored in an intransient repository, extracting files from the intransient repository, creating a copy each of the files in a transient repository, carrying out iterations of node-wise comparison between the files using a DOM parser and generating a report in a chosen file format.

Claims

1. A computer implemented system for comparing at least two visual programming language files, said system comprising:

an intransient repository adapted to store said visual programming language files, wherein each of said visual programming language files is defined by a hierarchy of nodes, wherein said intransient repository is a server with SSH2 encryption;

a user interface adapted to provide a platform for interaction between a user and said system;

an authentication module adapted to authenticate login credentials of the user, wherein said login credentials is chosen from a group consisting of authentication with a password, and authentication with keyboard-interactive;

a menu driven selector module configured to accept file type as a first choice, and file format as a second choice of said visual programming language files to be compared;

an extractor module adapted to extract said visual programming language files from said intransient repository;

a transient repository adapted to store a copy of said visual programming language files extracted from said intransient repository;

a processor adapted to perform iterations of a node by node comparison between said visual programming language files stored in said transient repository using a comparator, wherein said comparator is a DOM parser; and

a report generation module adapted to generate a result report based on results outputted by said comparator.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said file type is one of Flow and Record.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said Flow file type contains at least one node from a group comprising:

sequence;

invoke;

branch;

map;

loop;

repeat; and

exit.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said file format is one of Flat file format and Microsoft Excel file format.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said server is a UNIX server.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said file path is a combination of path to said intransient repository and one of flow.xml and node.ndf.

7. A computer implemented method for comparing at least two visual programming language files, said method comprising the following steps:

verifying login credentials of a user;

identifying a file type chosen by said user as a first choice;

identifying a file format chosen by said user as a second choice;

identifying file path to said visual programming language files stored in an intransient repository;

extracting said visual programming language files from said intransient repository;

creating a copy each of said visual programming language files in a transient repository;

carrying out iterations of node-wise comparison between said visual programming language files using a DOM parser; and

generating a report in the chosen file format.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the step of carrying out iterations of node-wise comparison between said visual programming language files, wherein said file type of said visual programming language files is of Record, said method further comprises the following steps:

comparing field names and data types; and

comparing document references.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the step of carrying out iterations of node-wise comparison between said visual programming language files, wherein said file type of said visual programming language files is of Flow, said method further comprises the following steps:

verifying the flow steps and its attributes; and

comparing step values and drops.