AURA: a hybrid approach to identify framework evolution

  • Authors:

  • Wei Wu;Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc;Giuliano Antoniol;Miryung Kim

  • Affiliations:

  • DGIGL, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada;DGIGL, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada;DGIGL, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada;The University of Texas at Austin

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Software frameworks and libraries are indispensable to today's software systems. As they evolve, it is often time-consuming for developers to keep their code up-to-date, so approaches have been proposed to facilitate this. Usually, these approaches cannot automatically identify change rules for one-replaced-by-many and many-replaced-by-one methods, and they trade off recall for higher precision using one or more experimentally-evaluated thresholds. We introduce AURA, a novel hybrid approach that combines call dependency and text similarity analyses to overcome these limitations. We implement it in a Java system and compare it on five frameworks with three previous approaches by Dagenais and Robillard, M. Kim et al., and Schäfer et al. The comparison shows that, on average, the recall of AURA is 53.07% higher while its precision is similar, e.g., 0.10% lower.