NDLI: Change Distilling:Tree Differencing for Fine-Grained Source Code Change Extraction

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Fluri, B. Wursch, M. Pinzger, M. Gall, H.C.
Copyright Year	1976
Abstract	A key issue in software evolution analysis is the identification of particular changes that occur across several versions of a program. We present change distilling, a tree differencing algorithm for fine-grained source code change extraction. For that, we have improved the existing algorithm by Chawathe et al. for extracting changes in hierarchically structured data. Our algorithm extracts changes by finding both a match between the nodes of the compared two abstract syntax trees and a minimum edit script that can transform one tree into the other given the computed matching. As a result, we can identify fine-grained change types between program versions according to our taxonomy of source code changes. We evaluated our change distilling algorithm with a benchmark that we developed, which consists of 1,064 manually classified changes in 219 revisions of eight methods from three different open source projects. We achieved significant improvements in extracting types of source code changes: Our algorithm approximates the minimum edit script 45 percent better than the original change extraction approach by Chawathe et al. We are able to find all occurring changes and almost reach the minimum conforming edit script, that is, we reach a mean absolute percentage error of 34 percent, compared to the 79 percent reached by the original algorithm. The paper describes both our change distilling algorithm and the results of our evolution.
Sponsorship	IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society
File Size	3224791
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00985589
Volume Number	33
Issue Number	11
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-11-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Data mining Taxonomy Software maintenance Programming profession Software algorithms Algorithm design and analysis Software tools Maintenance engineering Software systems History software evolution analysis Source code change extraction tree differencing algorithms software repositories
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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