Program element matching for multi-version program analyses
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Automatic Inference of Structural Changes for Matching across Program Versions
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Mining framework usage changes from instantiation code
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
A program differencing algorithm for verilog HDL
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
A history-based matching approach to identification of framework evolution
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Comparing approaches to analyze refactoring activity on software repositories
Journal of Systems and Software
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Finding changed identifiers is important for understanding the difference between two versions of a program and for detecting and resolving conflicts while merging variants of a program together. Standard practice for differencing and merging relies on line based techniques that do not recognize renamed identifiers. The design and implementation of a tool to automatically detect renamed identifiers between two versions of a program is presented. The system uses an abstract representation of language constructs to enable language awareness without introducing language dependence. Modules for Java and Scheme have been written. The detector works with multiple file pairs, taking into account renamings that span several files. A case study is presented that demonstrates proof of concept. The detector is part of a suite of intelligent differencing and merging programs that exploit the static semantics of programming languages.