Patent 11907710 was granted and assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation on February, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A time period required for analyzing a source code is reduced without reducing analysis accuracy in a source code analysis apparatus that analyzes a source code with a dynamic analysis method. An analysis processing unit extracts, from a post-change source code, an influence function to which an input is given by a change function. An analysis necessity determination processing unit determines whether or not the function is the analysis target function, based on a range of an input value input to the change function and a function included in the influence function. The analysis processing unit performs an analysis of the analysis target function, which is included in the change function and the influence function. An analysis result processing unit outputs an analysis result of the post-change source code, which includes an analysis result of the analysis target function.