Code migration with statistical machine translation

Abstract

In modern software development, developers often need to migrate code written for one platform in a programming language to another language for a different platform. The migration process is often performed manually or semi-automatically, in which developers are required to manually define translation rules and API mappings between languages. This talk outlines our research plan and results in investigating Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) in supporting code migration. We will explain the challenges and our solutions to address them, as well as our vision along this direction.