Development History Granularity Transformations (N)

Kivanç Muslu, Luke Swart, Yuriy Brun, Michael D. Ernst

DOI 10.1109/ase.2015.53 dblp

Abstract

Development histories can simplify some software engineering tasks, butdifferent tasks require different history granularities. For example, a history that includes every edit that resulted in compiling code is needed when searching for the cause of a regression, whereas a history that contains only changes relevant to a feature is needed for understanding the evolution of the feature. Unfortunately, today, both manual and automated history generation result in a single-granularity history. This paper introduces the concept of multi-grained development history views and the architecture of Codebase Manipulation, a tool that automatically records a fine-grained history and manages its granularity by applying granularity transformations.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Muslu-al:ASE15,
  author    = {Kivan{\c{c}} Muslu and
               Luke Swart and
               Yuriy Brun and
               Michael D. Ernst},
  title     = {Development History Granularity Transformations {(N)}},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {697--702},
  publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
  year      = {2015},
}

Development History Granularity Transformations (N)

Abstract

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