NDLI: Transforming Code with Compositional Mappings for API-Library Switching

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ling Wu Qian Wu Guangtai Liang Qianxiang Wang Zhi Jin
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Peking Univ., Beijing, China (Ling Wu; Qian Wu; Guangtai Liang; Qianxiang Wang; Zhi Jin)
Abstract	API-library switching is to change an underlying API library to another one for a given program. API-library switching is frequent in software-development process, with typical examples as migrating programs across platforms or across incompatible versions of API libraries. Manual API-library switching is time-consuming and error-prone. To address this problem, previous research has proposed a series of rule based code-transformation approaches. However, these existing approaches are ineffective in conducting code transformation for those original code snippets containing a sequence of method invocations correlated with each other and in need of being considered together when transformed. We call the pair of an original code snippet and its transformed target code snippet as a compositional-mapping instance. Through our empirical investigation, we confirm that compositional-mapping instances widely exist during API-library switching. To handle compositional-mapping instances, in this paper, we propose a novel code-transformation approach named as CMIT. Our evaluations compare CMIT with an existing rule-based code transformation approach. The evaluation results show that, compared to the existing approach, CMIT is more flexible, and CMIT increases the recall on average by 33.8% without decreasing the precision.
Starting Page	316
Ending Page	325
File Size	568648
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	07303157
e-ISBN	9781467365642
DOI	10.1109/COMPSAC.2015.29
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-07-01
Publisher Place	Taiwan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Pattern matching Libraries Switches Transforms Software Syntactics Standards Compositional Mappings Code Transformation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Applications Software

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