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Wed 12 Oct 2022 10:00 - 10:20 at Banquet B - Technical Session 12 - Builds and Versions Chair(s): Yi Li

Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) are widely used beyond compilers in many tools that measure and improve code quality, such as code analysis, bug detection, mining code metrics, refactoring, etc. With the advent of fast software evolution and multistage releases, the temporal analysis of an AST history is becoming useful to understand and maintain code. However, jointly analyzing thousands versions of ASTs independently faces scalability issues, mostly combinatorial, both in terms of memory and CPU usage. In this paper, we propose a novel type of AST, called HyperAST, that enables efficient temporal code analysis on a given software history by: 1/ leveraging code redundancy through space (between code elements) and time (between versions); 2/ reusing intermediate computation results. We show how the HyperAST can be built incrementally on a set of commits to capture all multiple ASTs at once in an optimized way. We evaluated the HyperAST on a curated list of large software projects. Compared to Spoon, a state-of-the-art technique as a baseline, we observed that the \HyperAST outperforms it with an order-of-magnitude difference from x6 up to x8076 in CPU construction time and from x12 up to x1159 in memory footprint. While the HyperAST requires up to 2 hours 22 minutes and 7.2Gb for the biggest project, Spoon requires up to 93 hours and 31 minutes 2.2TB. The gains in construction time varied from +83,4% to +99,99% and the gains in memory footprint varied from +91,8% to +99,9%. We further compared the task of finding references of declarations with the HyperAST and Spoon. We observed on average 90% precision and 97% recall without a significant difference in search time.

Wed 12 Oct

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10:00 - 12:00
Technical Session 12 - Builds and VersionsResearch Papers at Banquet B
Chair(s): Yi Li Nanyang Technological University
10:00
20m
Research paper
HyperAST: Enabling Efficient Analysis of Software Histories at ScaleACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Quentin Le-dilavrec Univ. Rennes, IRISA, INRIA, Djamel Eddine Khelladi CNRS, France, Arnaud Blouin Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, Jean-Marc Jézéquel Univ Rennes - IRISA
10:20
20m
Research paper
Has My Release Disobeyed Semantic Versioning? Static Detection Based On Semantic DifferencingACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Chengwei Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Zhengzi Xu Nanyang Technological University, Sen Chen Tianjin University, Lingling Fan Nankai University, Bihuan Chen Fudan University, China, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University
10:40
20m
Research paper
Detecting Build Conflicts in Software Merge for Java Programs via Static Analysis
Research Papers
Sheikh Shadab Towqir Virginia Tech, Bowen Shen Virginia Tech, Muhammad Ali Gulzar Virginia Tech, USA, Na Meng Virginia Tech
11:00
20m
Research paper
SmartPip: A Smart Approach to Resolving Python Dependency Conflict IssuesVirtual
Research Papers
Chao Wang School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Rongxin Wu Xiamen University, Haohao Song School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Jiwu Shu School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Guoqing Li Xiamen Meiya Pico Information Co., Ltd.
11:20
20m
Research paper
Accelerating Build Dependency Error Detection via Virtual BuildVirtual
Research Papers
Rongxin Wu Xiamen University, Minglei Chen School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Chengpeng Wang The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Gang Fan Ant Group, Jiguang Qiu Xiamen Meiya Pico Information Co., Ltd., Charles Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
11:40
20m
Research paper
BuildSonic: Detecting and Repairing Performance-Related Configuration Smells for Continuous Integration BuildsVirtual
Research Papers
Chen Zhang Fudan University, Bihuan Chen Fudan University, China, Junhao Hu Fudan University, Xin Peng Fudan University, Wenyun Zhao Fudan University, China