NDLI: Leveraging specifications of subcomponents to mine precise specifications of composite components

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ziying Dai Xiaoguang Mao Yan Lei Liqian Chen
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Coll. of Comput., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China (Ziying Dai; Xiaoguang Mao; Yan Lei; Liqian Chen)
Abstract	Specifications play an important role in many software engineering activities. Despite their usefulness, formal specifications are often unavailable in practice. Specification mining techniques try to automatically recover specifications from existing programs. Unfortunately, mined specifications are often overly general, which hampers their applications in the downstream analysis and testing. Nowadays, programmers develop software systems by utilizing existing components that usually have some available specifications. However, benefits of these available specifications are not explored by current specification miners. In this paper, we propose an approach to leverage available specifications of subcomponents to improve the precision of specifications of the composite component mined by state-based mining techniques. We monitor subcomponents against their specifications during the mining process and use states that are reached to construct abstract states of the composite component. Our approach makes subcomponents' states encoded within their specifications visible to their composite component, and improves the precision of mined specifications by effectively increasing the number of their states. The empirical evaluation shows that our approach can significantly improve the precision of mined specifications by removing erroneous behavior without noticeable loss of recall.
Starting Page	162
Ending Page	171
File Size	704929
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479929313
DOI	10.1109/WCRE.2013.6671291
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-10-14
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Monitoring Abstracts Object oriented modeling Training Libraries Concrete Java
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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