CloneMap: A Clone-Aware Code Inspection Tool in Evolving Software

2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT) Pub Date : 2018-05-01 DOI:10.1109/EIT.2018.8500143

Alex C. Fish, T. Nguyen, Myoungkyu Song

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Mining software repositories is a frequent tactic in the evaluation of software in our research. Software modification of large code bases often consists of recurring changes, similar but slightly different changes across multiple locations and revisions. It is a high-effort, time consuming process for developers to find all the relevant locations to maintain such changes among bug-fixes, refactorings, and new code being added to the code base for new features. This process is highly error-prone leading to many mistakes, such as inconsistent or incorrect updates. To address this problem, we present a tool that helps developers ensure correctness of recurring changes to multiple locations in an evolving software. CloneMap is a clone-aware code inspection tool which allows developers to specify the older and newer revisions of a software. It then applies a clone detection technique to (1) mine repositories for extracting differences of recurring changes, (2) visualize the clone evolution, and (3) help developers focus their attention to potential anomalies, such as inconsistent and missing updates as the software evolves from one revision to the next.

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CloneMap:进化软件中的克隆感知代码检查工具

在我们的研究中，挖掘软件库是一种常用的软件评估策略。大型代码库的软件修改通常由反复出现的更改组成，这些更改在多个位置和修订中相似但略有不同。对于开发人员来说，在bug修复、重构和为新特性向代码库中添加的新代码中找到所有相关的位置来维护这些更改是一个费时费力的过程。此过程非常容易出错，导致许多错误，例如不一致或不正确的更新。为了解决这个问题，我们提供了一个工具，它可以帮助开发人员确保对不断发展的软件中多个位置的重复更改的正确性。CloneMap是一个克隆感知代码检查工具，它允许开发人员指定软件的旧版本和新版本。然后，它将克隆检测技术应用于(1)挖掘存储库以提取重复更改的差异，(2)可视化克隆演变，以及(3)帮助开发人员将注意力集中在潜在的异常上，例如软件从一个版本演变到下一个版本时不一致和缺失的更新。

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