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BabelRef: Detection and renaming tool for cross-language program entities in dynamic web applications

Hung Viet Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Tien N. Nguyen

DOI 10.1109/icse.2012.6227240dblp

Abstract

In a dynamic web application, client-side code is often dynamically generated from server-side code. Client-side program entities such as HTML presentation elements and Javascript functions/variables are embedded within server-side string literals or variables' values. However, existing tools for code maintenance such as automatic renaming support only work for program entities in a single language on either the server side or the client side. In this paper, we introduce BabelRef, a novel tool that is able to automatically identify and rename client-side program entities and their references that are embedded within server-side code.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Nguyen-al:ICSE12,
  author    = {Hung Viet Nguyen and
               Hoan Anh Nguyen and
               Tung Thanh Nguyen and
               Tien N. Nguyen},
  title     = {{BabelRef:} Detection and renaming tool for cross-language program entities in dynamic web applications},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {1391--1394},
  publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
  year      = {2012},
}

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