Automated detection of api refactorings in libraries Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:6056874, abstract = {Software developers often do not build software from scratch but reuse software libraries. In theory, the APIs of a library should be stable, but in practice they do change and thus require changes in software that reuses the library. Our previous study of five reusable components shows that more than 80\% of these API changes are caused by refactorings. If these refactorings could be automatically detected, they could be used to automatically upgrade applications.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Taneja, Kunal and Dig, Danny and Xie, Tao}, booktitle = {ASE '07: Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering}, citeulike-article-id = {6056874}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1321688}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1321631.1321688}, doi = {10.1145/1321631.1321688}, isbn = {978-1-59593-882-4}, keywords = {apitrafo, refactoring}, location = {Atlanta, Georgia, USA}, pages = {377--380}, posted-at = {2009-11-02 16:43:57}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Automated detection of api refactorings in libraries}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1321631.1321688}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:6056874 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6056874 N2 - Software developers often do not build software from scratch but reuse software libraries. In theory, the APIs of a library should be stable, but in practice they do change and thus require changes in software that reuses the library. Our previous study of five reusable components shows that more than 80% of these API changes are caused by refactorings. If these refactorings could be automatically detected, they could be used to automatically upgrade applications. CY - Atlanta, Georgia, USA SN - 978-1-59593-882-4 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 380 TI - Automated detection of api refactorings in libraries PB - ACM T2 - ASE '07: Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering SP - 377 KW - apitrafo KW - refactoring AU - Taneja, Kunal AU - Dig, Danny AU - Xie, Tao PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1321631.1321688 ER -