API Evolution and Compatibility: A Data Corpus and Tool Evaluation

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23520%2F17%3A43949461" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23520/17:43949461 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5381/jot.2017.16.4.a2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5381/jot.2017.16.4.a2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5381/jot.2017.16.4.a2" target="_blank" >10.5381/jot.2017.16.4.a2</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

API Evolution and Compatibility: A Data Corpus and Tool Evaluation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The development of software components with independent release cycles is nowadays widely supported by multiple languages and frameworks. A critical feature of any such platform is to safeguard composition by ensuring backward compatibility of substituted components. In recent years, some tooling has been developed to help developers and DevOps engineers to establish whether components are backward compatible by means of static analysis. We investigate the state of the art in this space by benchmarking such tools for Java. For this purpose, we have developer a compact benchmark data set of less than 200KB. Using this dataset, we study possible API changes of Java libraries, and whether the tools investigated can detect them. We find that only a small number of tools suitable to analyse API evolution exist. Those tools are only infrequently maintained by small communities. All tools investigated have some shortcomings in that they fail to detect certain API incompatibilities.

Název v anglickém jazyce

API Evolution and Compatibility: A Data Corpus and Tool Evaluation

Popis výsledku anglicky

The development of software components with independent release cycles is nowadays widely supported by multiple languages and frameworks. A critical feature of any such platform is to safeguard composition by ensuring backward compatibility of substituted components. In recent years, some tooling has been developed to help developers and DevOps engineers to establish whether components are backward compatible by means of static analysis. We investigate the state of the art in this space by benchmarking such tools for Java. For this purpose, we have developer a compact benchmark data set of less than 200KB. Using this dataset, we study possible API changes of Java libraries, and whether the tools investigated can detect them. We find that only a small number of tools suitable to analyse API evolution exist. Those tools are only infrequently maintained by small communities. All tools investigated have some shortcomings in that they fail to detect certain API incompatibilities.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LO1506" target="_blank" >LO1506: Podpora udržitelnosti centra NTIS - Nové technologie pro informační společnost</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

The Journal of Object Technology

ISSN

1660-1769

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

16

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

1-23

Kód UT WoS článku

—

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85029827449