{"id":3957,"date":"2018-04-05T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=b27d68df548ad5f97e0f12a05d0cdf52"},"modified":"2018-04-05T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:52:17","slug":"concordia-develops-tool-with-ubisoft-to-detect-glitches-in-gaming-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/concordia-develops-tool-with-ubisoft-to-detect-glitches-in-gaming-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Concordia develops tool with Ubisoft to detect glitches in gaming software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Concordia University says it&#8217;s partnered with video game studio Ubisoft Montreal on a project to streamline the game development process.<\/p>\n<p>The university says researcher Wahab Hamou-Lhadj and his team have developed an artificial intelligence system that automatically identifies coding defects as programmers write them.<\/p>\n<p>Concordia says Hamou-Lhadj and his team had access to a decade&#8217;s worth of code from the company, which they used to find patterns in bugs and fixes that can now be used to warn programmers about similar mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Hamou-Lhadj says the tool, developed with Ubisoft&#8217;s La Forge research and development unit, could reduce development times by as much as 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>He says the time spent correcting defects represents thousands of expensive work-hours, with software maintenance accounting for about 70 per cent of the whole software life cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Concordia says the system, called Commit Assistant, will make games less likely to crash but could also be used in a wide range of software development scenarios outside the gaming industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &mdash; Concordia University says it&rsquo;s partnered with video game studio Ubisoft Montreal on a project to streamline the game development process. The university says researcher Wahab Hamou-Lhadj and his team have developed an artificial intelligence system that automatically identifies coding defects as programmers write them. Concordia says Hamou-Lhadj and his team had access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}