Article

Automated upgrading of component-based applications

Authors:

OOPSLA '06: Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

Pages 675 - 676

https://doi.org/10.1145/1176617.1176668

Published: 22 October 2006 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

Frameworks and libraries change their APIs. Migrating an application to the new API is tedious and disrupts the development process. Although some tools and ideas have been proposed to solve the evolution of APIs, most updates are done manually. Our study of the API changes in five components revealed that over 80% of the changes that break existing applications are caused by refactorings. This suggests that refactoring-based migration tools should be used to effectively upgrade applications. We propose an approach that is both automated and safe, without any overhead on the component producers. First, component refactorings are automatically detected (either inferred or recorded), then they are incorporated into applications by replaying.

References

[1]

Fowler, M., Beck, K., Brant, J., Opdyke, W., Roberts, D.: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Adison-Wesley (1999)

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[2]

Chow, K., Notkin, D.: Semi-automatic update of applications in response to library changes. In: ICSM'96: Proceedings of International Conference on Software Maintenance. 359--368

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[3]

Keller, R., Hölzle, U.: Binary component adaptation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science text1445 (1998) 307--329

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[4]

Roock, S., Havenstein, A.: Refactoring tags for automatic refactoring of framework dependent applications. XP'02: Proceedings of Extreme Programming Conference. 182--185

Google Scholar

[5]

Balaban, I., Tip, F., Fuhrer, R.: Refactoring support for class library migration. OOPSLA '05: Proceedings of Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications. 265--279

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[6]

Dig, D., Johnson, R.: The role of refactorings in API evolution. ICSM '05: Proceedings of International Conference on Software Maintenance. 389--398

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[7]

Dig, D., Johnson, R.: How do APIs evolve? A story of refactoring. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution text18 (2006) 87--103

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[8]

Henkel, J., Diwan, A.: CatchUp!: Capturing and replaying refactorings to support API evolution. ICSE'05: Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering. 274--283

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[9]

Dig, D., Comertoglu, C., Marinov, D., Johnson, R.: Automated detection of refactorings in evolving components. ECOOP'06: European Conference on OO Programming. 404--428

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[10]

Dig, D., Nguyen, T., Johnson, R.: Refactoring-aware software configuration management. Tech Report UIUCDCS-R-2006-2710,UIUC(2006)

Google Scholar

[11]

E. Lippe and N. van Oosterom. Operation-based merging. In SDE5: Proceedings of Symposium on Software Development Environments. 78--87

Digital Library

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Li TZhang Y(2024)Multilingual code refactoring detection based on deep learningExpert Systems with Applications10.1016/j.eswa.2024.125164258(125164)Online publication date: Dec-2024
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.125164
Tsantalis NKetkar ADig D(2022)RefactoringMiner 2.0IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering10.1109/TSE.2020.300772248:3(930-950)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2020.3007722
Lamothe MGuéhéneuc YShang W(2021)A Systematic Review of API Evolution LiteratureACM Computing Surveys10.1145/347013354:8(1-36)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3470133
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Automated upgrading of component-based applications
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Software libraries and repositories

Recommendations

Automated upgrading of component-based applications
ReBA: a tool for generating binary adapters for evolving java libraries
ICSE Companion '08: Companion of the 30th international conference on Software engineering

Although in theory the APIs of software libraries and frameworks should be stable, they change in practice. This forces clients of the library API to change as well, making software maintenance expensive. Changing a client might not even be an option if ...
How do APIs evolve? A story of refactoring: Research Articles
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2005)

Frameworks and libraries change their APIs. Migrating an application to the new API is tedious and disrupts the development process. Although some tools and ideas have been proposed to solve the evolution of APIs, most updates are done manually. To ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

OOPSLA '06: Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

October 2006

530 pages

ISBN:159593491X

DOI:10.1145/1176617

General Chair:
Peri Tarr
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
,
Program Chair:
William R. Cook
University of Texas at Austin, USA

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 22 October 2006

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Article

Conference

OOPSLA06

Sponsor:

OOPSLA06: ACM SIGPLAN Object Oriented Programming Systems and Applications Conference

October 22 - 26, 2006

Oregon, Portland, USA

Upcoming Conference

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

4
Total Citations
View Citations
288
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)9
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 26 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Li TZhang Y(2024)Multilingual code refactoring detection based on deep learningExpert Systems with Applications10.1016/j.eswa.2024.125164258(125164)Online publication date: Dec-2024
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.125164
Tsantalis NKetkar ADig D(2022)RefactoringMiner 2.0IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering10.1109/TSE.2020.300772248:3(930-950)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2020.3007722
Lamothe MGuéhéneuc YShang W(2021)A Systematic Review of API Evolution LiteratureACM Computing Surveys10.1145/347013354:8(1-36)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3470133
Behrang FOrso ATip FBodden E(2018)Test migration for efficient large-scale assessment of mobile app coding assignmentsProceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis10.1145/3213846.3213854(164-175)Online publication date: 12-Jul-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3213846.3213854

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

Automated upgrading of component-based applications

ReBA: a tool for generating binary adapters for evolving java libraries

How do APIs evolve? A story of refactoring: Research Articles