SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING SOFTWARE CHANGES

A system and method may be used to track software changes by analyzing intermediate language level representations of the software. For example, software changes may be tracked by analyzing object-oriented program code that includes one or more non-native binary executables based on an intermediate language. The program code may be associated with metadata describing content of the non-native binary executables. An object tree, which includes a plurality of nodes, may be constructed to represent the non-native binary executables and the metadata describing the content of the non-native binary executables. One or more of the plurality of nodes may be hashed to associate respective digest values with the hashed nodes, such that changes in the received program code can be tracked using the digest values associated with the hashed nodes.