Improving reusability of software libraries through usage pattern mining
Modern software systems are increasingly dependent on third-party libraries. It is widely recognized that reusing functionality provided by mature and well-tested third-party libraries can improve developers’ productivity, reduce time-to-market, and produce more reliable software. Today’s open-source repositories provide a wide range of libraries that can be freely downloaded and used. However, as software libraries are documented separately but intended to be used together, developers are unlikely to fully take advantage of these reuse opportunities. In this paper, we present a novel approach to automatically identify third-party library usage patterns, i.e., collections of libraries that are commonly used together by developers. Our approach employs a hierarchical clustering technique to group together software libraries based on external client usage. Our approach is based on the analysis of the joint versus separate use of the libraries. The pattern’s libraries are distributed on different usage cohesion levels/layers. Each layer reflects the co-usage frequency between a set of libraries, while the distribution on the different levels demonstrates the graduation in the degree of co-usage frequency. To evaluate our approach, we mined a large set of over 6000 popular libraries from Maven Central Repository and investigated their usage by over 38,000 client systems from the GitHub repository. Our experiments show that our technique is able to detect the majority (77%) of highly consistent and cohesive library usage patterns across a considerable number of client systems.
Thu 14 NovDisplayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change
13:40 - 15:20 | Mining and Bug DetectionDemonstrations / Journal First Presentations at Cortez 2&3 Chair(s): Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan | ||
13:40 20mTalk | Automatically 'Verifying' Complex Systems through Learning, Abstraction and Refinement Journal First Presentations Jingyi Wang National University of Singapore, Singapore, Jun Sun Singapore Management University, Singapore, Shengchao Qin University of Teesside, Cyrille Jegourel ISTD, Singapore University of Technology and Design Link to publication | ||
14:00 20mTalk | Interactive semi-automated specification mining for debugging: An experience report Journal First Presentations Mohammad Jafar Mashhadi University of Calgary, Taha R. Siddiqui InfoMagnetics Technologies Corp, Hadi Hemmati University of Calgary, Howard W. Loewen Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Calgary Link to publication | ||
14:20 20mTalk | Improving reusability of software libraries through usage pattern mining Journal First Presentations Mohamed Aymen Saied Concordia University, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec, Houari Sahraoui Université de Montréal, Raula Gaikovina Kula NAIST, Katsuro Inoue Osaka University, David Lo Singapore Management University Link to publication | ||
14:40 20mTalk | Rule-based specification mining leveraging learning to rank Journal First Presentations Zherui Cao Zhejiang University, Yuan Tian Queens University, Kingston, Canada, Tien-Duy B. Le School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, David Lo Singapore Management University Link to publication | ||
15:00 10mDemonstration | TsmartGP: A Tool for Finding Memory Defects with Pointer Analysis Demonstrations Yuexing Wang Tsinghua University, Guang Chen Tsinghua University, Min Zhou Tsinghua University, Ming Gu Tsinghua University, Jiaguang Sun Tsinghua University | ||
15:10 10mDemonstration | Ares: Inferring Error Specifications through Static Analysis Demonstrations Li Chi Tsinghua University, Zuxing Gu School of Software, Tsinghua University, Min Zhou Tsinghua University, Ming Gu Tsinghua University, Hongyu Zhang The University of Newcastle |