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Exploring the Use of Automated API Migrating Techniques in Practice: An Experience Report on Android 在实践中探索自动化API迁移技术的使用:Android上的体验报告

2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196420

Maxime Lamothe, Weiyi Shang

{"title":"Exploring the Use of Automated API Migrating Techniques in Practice: An Experience Report on Android","authors":"Maxime Lamothe, Weiyi Shang","doi":"10.1145/3196398.3196420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3196398.3196420","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, open source software libraries have allowed developers to build robust applications by consuming freely available application program interfaces (API). However, when these APIs evolve, consumers are left with the difficult task of migration. Studies on API migration often assume that software documentation lacks explicit information for migration guidance and is impractical for API consumers. Past research has shown that it is possible to present migration suggestions based on historical code-change information. On the other hand, research approaches with optimistic views of documentation have also observed positive results. Yet, the assumptions made by prior approaches have not been evaluated on large scale practical systems, leading to a need to affirm their validity. This paper reports our recent practical experience migrating the use of Android APIs in FDroid apps when leveraging approaches based on documentation and historical code changes. Our experiences suggest that migration through historical code-changes presents various challenges and that API documentation is undervalued. In particular, the majority of migrations from removed or deprecated Android APIs to newly added APIs can be suggested by a simple keyword search in the documentation. More importantly, during our practice, we experienced that the challenges of API migration lie beyond migration suggestions, in aspects such as coping with parameter type changes in new API. Future research may aim to design automated approaches to address the challenges that are documented in this experience report.","PeriodicalId":6639,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)","volume":"40 1","pages":"503-514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87099322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 23

Prevalence of Confusing Code in Software Projects: Atoms of Confusion in the Wild 软件项目中混乱代码的流行:野外混乱的原子

2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196432

Dan Gopstein, Hongwei Zhou, P. Frankl, Justin Cappos

{"title":"Prevalence of Confusing Code in Software Projects: Atoms of Confusion in the Wild","authors":"Dan Gopstein, Hongwei Zhou, P. Frankl, Justin Cappos","doi":"10.1145/3196398.3196432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3196398.3196432","url":null,"abstract":"Prior work has shown that extremely small code patterns, such as the conditional operator and implicit type conversion, can cause considerable misunderstanding in programmers. Until now, the real world impact of these patterns - known as 'atoms of confusion' - was only speculative. This work uses a corpus of 14 of the most popular and influential open source C and C++ projects to measure the prevalence and significance of these small confusing patterns. Our results show that the 15 known types of confusing micro patterns occur millions of times in programs like the Linux kernel and GCC, appearing on average once every 23 lines. We show there is a strong correlation between these confusing patterns and bug-ix commits as well as a tendency for confusing patterns to be commented. We also explore patterns at the project level showing the rate of security vulnerabilities is higher in projects with more atoms. Finally, we examine real code examples containing these atoms, including ones that were used to ind and ix bugs in our corpus. In total this work demonstrates that beyond simple misunderstanding in the lab setting, atoms of confusion are both prevalent - occurring often in real projects, and meaningful - being removed by bug-fix commits at an elevated rate.","PeriodicalId":6639,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)","volume":"135 1","pages":"281-291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73075119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 28

Documented Unix Facilities over 48 Years 记录了48年以上的Unix设施

2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196476

D. Spinellis

引用次数: 4

Studying Developer Build Issues and Debugger Usage via Timeline Analysis in Visual Studio IDE 在Visual Studio IDE中通过时间线分析研究开发人员构建问题和调试器使用情况

2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196463

Christopher Bellman, Ahmad Seet, Olga Baysal

{"title":"Studying Developer Build Issues and Debugger Usage via Timeline Analysis in Visual Studio IDE","authors":"Christopher Bellman, Ahmad Seet, Olga Baysal","doi":"10.1145/3196398.3196463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3196398.3196463","url":null,"abstract":"Every day, most software developers use development tools to write, build, and maintain their code. The most crucial of such tools is the integrated development environment (IDE), in which developers create and build code. Therefore, it is important to understand how developers perform their work and what impact each action has on their workflow to further enhance their productivity. In this work, we study the KaVE dataset of developer interactions within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE and analyze a number of topics extracted from the data. First, we propose a method for developing what we call \"timelines\" that chronologically map an individual development session, and from this, we study build failures, code debugger usage, and we propose a metric for measuring developer throughput. We find that the timeline analysis may prove to be an invaluable tool for developer self-assessment and key to uncovering problem areas regarding build failures. Moreover, we find that developers spend a significant amount of time debugging their code, utilizing features such as breakpoints to resolve issues. Finally, we see that the developer metric can be used for self assessment, giving value to the amount of effort, put forth by a developer, in a given session.","PeriodicalId":6639,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)","volume":"24 1","pages":"106-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80414428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Automatic Classification of Software Artifacts in Open-Source Applications 开源应用程序中软件构件的自动分类

2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196446

Yuzhan Ma, Sarah Fakhoury, Michael Christensen, V. Arnaoudova, W. Zogaan, Mehdi Mirakhorli

{"title":"Automatic Classification of Software Artifacts in Open-Source Applications","authors":"Yuzhan Ma, Sarah Fakhoury, Michael Christensen, V. Arnaoudova, W. Zogaan, Mehdi Mirakhorli","doi":"10.1145/3196398.3196446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3196398.3196446","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing popularity of open-source software development, there is a tremendous growth of software artifacts that provide insight into how people build software. Researchers are always looking for large-scale and representative software artifacts to produce systematic and unbiased validation of novel and existing techniques. For example, in the domain of software requirements traceability, researchers often use software applications with multiple types of artifacts, such as requirements, system elements, verifications, or tasks to develop and evaluate their traceability analysis techniques. However, the manual identification of rich software artifacts is very labor-intensive. In this work, we first conduct a large-scale study to identify which types of software artifacts are produced by a wide variety of open-source projects at different levels of granularity. Then we propose an automated approach based on Machine Learning techniques to identify various types of software artifacts. Through a set of experiments, we report and compare the performance of these algorithms when applied to software artifacts.","PeriodicalId":6639,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)","volume":"14 1","pages":"414-425"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80071932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 29

npm-Miner: An Infrastructure for Measuring the Quality of the npm Registry npm- miner:衡量npm注册表质量的基础设施

2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196465

Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Michail D. Papamichail, Themistoklis G. Diamantopoulos, Michail Tsapanos, A. Symeonidis

引用次数: 20

Why are Android Apps Removed From Google Play? A Large-Scale Empirical Study Android应用为何从Google Play下架?大规模实证研究

2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196412

Haoyu Wang, Hao Li, Li Li, Yao Guo, Guoai Xu

{"title":"Why are Android Apps Removed From Google Play? A Large-Scale Empirical Study","authors":"Haoyu Wang, Hao Li, Li Li, Yao Guo, Guoai Xu","doi":"10.1145/3196398.3196412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3196398.3196412","url":null,"abstract":"To ensure the quality and trustworthiness of the apps within its app market (i.e., Google Play), Google has released a series of policies to regulate app developers. As a result, policy-violating apps (e.g., malware, low-quality apps, etc.) have been removed by Google Play periodically. In reality, we have found that the number of removed apps are actually much more than what we have expected, as almost half of all the apps have been removed or replaced from Google Play during a two year period from 2015 to 2017. However, despite the significant number of removed apps, there are almost no study on the characterization of these removed apps. To this end, this paper takes the first step to understand why Android apps are removed from Google Play, aiming at observing promising insights for both market maintainers and app developers towards building a better app ecosystem. By leveraging two app sets crawled from Google Play in 2015 (over 1.5 million) and 2017 (over 2.1 million), we have identified a set of over 790K removed apps, which are then thoroughly investigated in various aspects. The experimental results have revealed various interesting findings, as well as insights for future research directions.","PeriodicalId":6639,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)","volume":"4 1","pages":"231-242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88028099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 64

Word Embeddings for the Software Engineering Domain 软件工程领域的词嵌入

2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196448

V. Efstathiou, Christos Chatzilenas, D. Spinellis

{"title":"Word Embeddings for the Software Engineering Domain","authors":"V. Efstathiou, Christos Chatzilenas, D. Spinellis","doi":"10.1145/3196398.3196448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3196398.3196448","url":null,"abstract":"The software development process produces vast amounts of textual data expressed in natural language. Outcomes from the natural language processing community have been adapted in software engineering research for leveraging this rich textual information; these include methods and readily available tools, often furnished with pretrained models. State of the art pretrained models however, capture general, common sense knowledge, with limited value when it comes to handling data specific to a specialized domain. There is currently a lack of domain-specific pretrained models that would further enhance the processing of natural language artefacts related to software engineering. To this end, we release a word2vec model trained over 15GB of textual data from Stack Overflow posts. We illustrate how the model disambiguates polysemous words by interpreting them within their software engineering context. In addition, we present examples of fine-grained semantics captured by the model, that imply transferability of these results to diverse, targeted information retrieval tasks in software engineering and motivate for further reuse of the model.","PeriodicalId":6639,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)","volume":"1 1","pages":"38-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81538708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 86

Characterising Deprecated Android APIs 描述弃用的Android api

2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196419

Li Li, Jun Gao, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Lei Ma, Xin Xia, Jacques Klein

{"title":"Characterising Deprecated Android APIs","authors":"Li Li, Jun Gao, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Lei Ma, Xin Xia, Jacques Klein","doi":"10.1145/3196398.3196419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3196398.3196419","url":null,"abstract":"Because of functionality evolution, or security and performance-related changes, some APIs eventually become unnecessary in a software system and thus need to be cleaned to ensure proper maintainability. Those APIs are typically marked first as deprecated APIs and, as recommended, follow through a deprecated-replace-remove cycle, giving an opportunity to client application developers to smoothly adapt their code in next updates. Such a mechanism is adopted in the Android framework development where thousands of reusable APIs are made available to Android app developers. In this work, we present a research-based prototype tool called CDA and apply it to different revisions (i.e., releases or tags) of the Android framework code for characterising deprecated APIs. Based on the data mined by CDA, we then perform an exploratory study on API deprecation in the Android ecosystem and the associated challenges for maintaining quality apps. In particular, we investigate the prevalence of deprecated APIs, their annotations and documentation, their removal and consequences, their replacement messages, as well as developer reactions to API deprecation. Experimental results reveal several findings that further provide promising insights for future research directions related to deprecated Android APIs. Notably, by mining the source code of the Android framework base, we have identified three bugs related to deprecated APIs. These bugs have been quickly assigned and positively appreciated by the framework maintainers, who claim that these issues will be updated in future releases.","PeriodicalId":6639,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)","volume":"50 1","pages":"254-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90086864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 64

A Study on Inappropriately Partitioned Commits — How Much and What Kinds of IP Commits in Java Projects? — 不适当分区提交的研究——Java项目中IP提交的数量和类型?- - - - - -

2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196406

Ryo Arima, Yoshiki Higo, S. Kusumoto

引用次数: 7