Breaking-Good: Explaining Breaking Dependency Updates with Build Analysis
Dependency updates often cause compilation errors when new dependency versions introduce changes that are incompatible with existing client code. Fixing breaking dependency updates is notoriously hard, as their root cause can be hidden deep in the dependency tree. We present Breaking-Good, a tool that automatically generates explanations for breaking updates. Breaking-Good provides a detailed categorization of compilation errors, identifying several factors related to changes in direct and indirect dependencies, incompatibilities between Java versions, and client-specific configuration. With a blended analysis of log and dependency trees, Breaking-Good generates detailed explanations for each breaking update. These explanations help developers understand the causes of the breaking update, and suggest possible actions to fix the breakage. We evaluate Breaking-Good on 243 real-world breaking dependency updates. Our results indicate that Breaking-Good accurately identifies root causes and generates automatic explanations for 70% of these breaking updates. Our user study demonstrates that the generated explanations help developers. Breaking-Good is the first technique that automatically identifies causes of a breaking dependency update and explains the breakage accordingly.
Tue 8 OctDisplayed time zone: Arizona change
13:30 - 15:00 | Testing & DebuggingResearch Track at Fremont Chair(s): Wesley Assunção North Carolina State University | ||
13:30 16mResearch paper | Migrating Unit Tests Across Java Applications Research Track Ajay Jha North Dakota State University, Sarah Nadi New York University Abu Dhabi, University of Alberta Pre-print | ||
13:47 16mResearch paper | PROZE: Generating Parameterized Unit Tests Informed by Runtime Data Research Track Deepika Tiwari KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Yogya Gamage Universtité de Montréal, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Benoit Baudry Université de Montréal Pre-print | ||
14:04 16mResearch paper | The Fault in our Stars: Quality Assessment of Code Generation Benchmarks Research Track Mohammed Latif Siddiq University of Notre Dame, Simantika Bhattacharjee Dristi BRAC University, Joy Saha BRAC University, Joanna C. S. Santos University of Notre Dame Pre-print | ||
14:21 16mResearch paper | Breaking-Good: Explaining Breaking Dependency Updates with Build Analysis Research Track Frank Reyes Garcia KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Benoit Baudry Université de Montréal, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology Pre-print | ||
14:40 20mLive Q&A | Discussion (Testing & Debugging) Research Track |