Systems and methods are provided for accessing a source code repository comprising a plurality of versions of code, analyzing the plurality of versions of code of the component to compute metrics to identify each version of code, analyzing the metrics to determine a subset of the metrics to use to as a fingerprint definition to identify each version of the code, generating a fingerprint for each version of code using the fingerprint definition, generating a fingerprint matrix with the fingerprint for each version of code for the software component and storing the fingerprint definition and the fingerprint matrix