Helping Mobile Software Code Reviewers: A Study of Bug Repair and Refactoring Patterns

2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft) Pub Date : 2016-05-14 DOI:10.1145/2897073.2897130

Zhiyuan Chen

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Mobile Developers commonly spend a significant amount of time and effort on conducting code reviews on newly introduced and domain-specific practices, such as platform-specific feature addition, quality of service anti-pattern refactorings, and battery-related bug fixes. To address these problems, we conducted a large empirical study over the software change history of 318 open source projects and investigated platform-dependent code changes from open source projects. Our analysis focuses on what types of changes mobile application developers typically make and how they perceive, recall, and communicate changed and affected code. Our study required the development of an automated strategy to examine open source repositories and categorize platform-related refactoring edits, bug repairs, and API updates, mining 1,961,990 commit changes. Our findings call for the need to develop a new recommendation system aimed at efficiently identifying required changes such as bug fixes and refactorings during mobile application code reviews.

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帮助移动软件代码审阅者:Bug修复和重构模式的研究

移动开发人员通常会花费大量的时间和精力对新引入的和特定领域的实践进行代码审查，例如特定于平平台的特性添加、服务质量反模式重构和电池相关的错误修复。为了解决这些问题，我们对318个开源项目的软件变更历史进行了大规模的实证研究，并调查了开源项目中与平台相关的代码变更。我们的分析侧重于移动应用程序开发人员通常会做出哪些类型的更改，以及他们如何感知、回忆和沟通更改和受影响的代码。我们的研究需要开发一种自动化策略来检查开源存储库，并对与平台相关的重构编辑、错误修复和API更新进行分类，挖掘1,961,990个提交更改。我们的研究结果表明，需要开发一种新的推荐系统，旨在有效地识别移动应用程序代码审查期间所需的更改，如bug修复和重构。

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2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)

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