ReBA: refactoring-aware binary adaptation of evolving libraries

Danny Dig, Stas Negara, Vibhu Mohindra, Ralph E. Johnson

Abstract

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 its source code is missing or certain policies forbid its change. By giving a library both the old and the new API, clients can be shielded from API changes and can run with the new version of the library.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Dig-al:ICSE08,
  author    = {Danny Dig and
               Stas Negara and
               Vibhu Mohindra and
               Ralph E. Johnson},
  title     = {{ReBA:} refactoring-aware binary adaptation of evolving libraries},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {441--450},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2008},
}

ReBA: refactoring-aware binary adaptation of evolving libraries

Abstract

Related papers