NDLI: Mining API mapping for language migration

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hao Zhong Thummalapenta, S. Tao Xie Lu Zhang Qing Wang
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Peking University, China (Hao Zhong) \|\| Institute of Software, Beijing, China (Qing Wang) \|\| Peking University, China (Lu Zhang) \|\| North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (Thummalapenta, S.; Tao Xie)
Abstract	To address business requirements and to survive in competing markets, companies or open source organizations often have to release different versions of their projects in different languages. Manually migrating projects from one language to another (such as from Java to C#) is a tedious and error-prone task. To reduce manual effort or human errors, tools can be developed for automatic migration of projects from one language to another. However, these tools require the knowledge of how Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of one language are mapped to APIs of the other language, referred to as API mapping relations. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, called MAM (Mining API Mapping), that mines API mapping relations from one language to another using API client code. MAM accepts a set of projects each with two versions in two languages and mines API mapping relations between those two languages based on how APIs are used by the two versions. These mined API mapping relations assist in migration of projects from one language to another. We implemented a tool and conducted two evaluations to show the effectiveness of MAM. The results show that our tool mines 25,805 unique mapping relations of APIs between Java and C# with more than 80% accuracy. The results also show that mined API mapping relations help reduce 54.4% compilation errors and 43.0% defects during migration of projects with an existing migration tool, called Java2CSharp. The reduction in compilation errors and defects is due to our new mined mapping relations that are not available with the existing migration tool.
Starting Page	195
Ending Page	204
File Size	282931
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605587196
ISSN	02705257
DOI	10.1145/1806799.1806831
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-05-02
Publisher Place	South Africa
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Java Receivers Libraries Data mining Software Accuracy Educational institutions language migration API mapping relation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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