Recommending adaptive changes for framework evolution

In the course of a framework's evolution, changes ranging from a simple refactoring to a complete rearchitecture can break client programs. Finding suitable replacements for framework elements that were accessed by a client program and deleted as part of the framework's evolution can be a...

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Main Authors: Dagenais, Barthélémy, Robillard, Martin P.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
adaptive changes
Application software
Computer science
Documentation
framework
historical study
Humans
Inspection
Java
Large-scale systems
Manuals
mining software repositories
origin analysis
partial program analysis
recommendation system
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Management of computing and information systems > Software management > Software maintenance
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software post-development issues
Software engineering
software evolution
Software maintenance
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Summary:In the course of a framework's evolution, changes ranging from a simple refactoring to a complete rearchitecture can break client programs. Finding suitable replacements for framework elements that were accessed by a client program and deleted as part of the framework's evolution can be a challenging task. We present a recommendation system, SemDiff, that suggests adaptations to client programs by analyzing how a framework adapts to its own changes. In a study of the evolution of the Eclipse JDT framework and three client programs, our approach recommended relevant adaptive changes with a high level of precision, and detected non-trivial changes typically undiscovered by current refactoring detection techniques.
ISSN:0270-5257
1558-1225
DOI:10.1145/1368088.1368154