Data-Driven Inference of API Mappings
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Abstract
Porting mobile applications (apps) from one platform to another is one strategy used by developers to write cross-platform apps. One challenging task in porting is transforming the app so as to use the appropriate platform-specific APIs. We have proposed a novel approach to extract functionally equivalent API methods of two platforms that simplifies this task. Our approach is inspired by a technique in natural language processing domain which extracts a translation dictionary from non-parallel corpora of two natural languages. We demonstrate a prototype implementation of the proposed approach.
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ISBN:9781450322959
DOI:10.1145/2688471
- General Chair:
- Judith Bishop,
- Program Chairs:
- Arno Puder,
- Nikolai Tillmann
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