Next Generation Automated Software Evolution Refactoring at Scale
Despite progress in providing software engineers with tools that automate an increasing number of development tasks, complex activities like redesigning and reengineering existing software remain resource intensive or are supported by tools that are error prone. Complex, but common tasks in industry, like evolving large codebases (1M+ SLOC) to meet changing needs, still rely on costly manual efforts and incur significant technical risk. In one example, an organization that we work with estimated 14,000 hours of development work alone (excluding integration and testing) to isolate a feature from the underlying hardware platform. These examples are pervasive in industry. Software engineering research has taken providing effective tools for software evolution for granted for far too long. The time is right for research to take advantage of advances in search-based software engineering and create the next generation of industry-relevant automated software evolution tools. This paper lays out a vision for automated refactoring at scale towards this goal.
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01:00 - 01:30 | Developer Support 2Research Papers / Tool Demos / Industry Papers / Paper Presentations / Visions and Reflections at Virtual room 1 | ||
01:00 2mTalk | Adapting Bug Prediction Models to Predict Reverted Commits at Wayfair Industry Papers Alexander Suh Wayfair Research, USA DOI | ||
01:03 1mTalk | ARCADE: An Extensible Workbench for Architecture Recovery, Change, and Decay Evaluation Tool Demos Marcelo Schmitt Laser University of Southern California, USA, Nenad Medvidović University of Southern California, USA, Duc Minh Le Bloomberg, USA, Joshua Garcia University of California, Irvine DOI | ||
01:05 1mTalk | BEE: A Tool for Structuring and Analyzing Bug Reports Tool Demos DOI | ||
01:07 1mTalk | Enhancing Developers' Support on Pull Requests Activities with Software Bots Paper Presentations Mairieli Wessel University of São Paulo | ||
01:09 1mTalk | Heard It through the Gitvine: An Empirical Study of Tool Diffusion across the npm Ecosystem Research Papers Hemank Lamba Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Asher Trockman Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Daniel Armanios Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Heather Miller Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University, USA DOI | ||
01:11 1mTalk | Next Generation Automated Software Evolution Refactoring at Scale Visions and Reflections James Ivers Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Robert Nord Software Engineering Institute, Chris Seifried Carnegie Mellon University, USA DOI | ||
01:13 17mTalk | Conversations on Developer Support 2 Paper Presentations Alexander Suh Wayfair Research, USA, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Mairieli Wessel University of São Paulo, Marcelo Schmitt Laser University of Southern California, USA, Yang Song University of North Carolina Wilmington, M: Bonita Sharif University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA |