Experience with a graph-based propagation programming tool

Lieberherr, Karl; Hürsch, Walter L.; Silva-Lepe, Ignacio; Xiao, Cun

doi:10.1109/case.1992.200139

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“…The Demeter Project [8,9] designed a programming environment that allowed the user to write a PROSPECTOR-like query as part of the source code and would generate code to traverse the object schema accordingly. Yellin and Strom [17] show how to generate adapters to connect components with defined temporal interfaces that are semantically compatible but syntactically incompatible.…”

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Jungloid mining

Mandelin

Bodík

et al. 2005

Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

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Reuse of existing code from class libraries and frameworks is often difficult because APIs are complex and the client code required to use the APIs can be hard to write. We observed that a common scenario is that the programmer knows what type of object he needs, but does not know how to write the code to get the object.In order to help programmers write API client code more easily, we developed techniques for synthesizing jungloid code fragments automatically given a simple query that describes that desired code in terms of input and output types. A jungloid is simply a unary expression; jungloids are simple, enabling synthesis, but are also versatile, covering many coding problems, and composable, combining to form more complex code fragments. We synthesize jungloids using both API method signatures and jungloids mined from a corpus of sample client programs.We implemented a tool, PROSPECTOR, based on these techniques. PROSPECTOR is integrated with the Eclipse IDE code assistance feature, and it infers queries from context so there is no need for the programmer to write queries. We tested PROSPECTOR on a set of real programming problems involving APIs; PROSPECTOR found the desired solution for 18 of 20 problems. We also evaluated PROSPECTOR in a user study, finding that programmers solved programming problems more quickly and with more reuse when using PROSPECTOR than without PROSPECTOR.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Jungloid mining

Mandelin

Bodík

et al. 2005

Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

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“…The concept of propagation patterns was originally introduced in the Demeter system in order to specify the object-oriented programs at a higher level of abstraction ( [17], [19]). We believe that propagation patterns are also a useful conceptual programming technique for database applications, which enables system designers and programmers to conceptualize application programs and system behavior with minimal knowledge of the data structure.…”

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The role of polymorphic reuse mechanisms in schema evolution in an object-oriented database

Liu

Zicari

Hürsch³

et al. 1997

IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.

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A seamless approach to the incremental design and reuse of object-oriented methods and query specifications is presented. We argue for avoiding or minimizing the effort required for manually reprogramming methods and queries due to schema modifications, and demonstrate how the role of polymorphic reuse mechanisms is exploited for enhancing the adaptiveness of database programs against schema evolution in an object-oriented database. The salient features of our approach are the use of propagation patterns and a mechanism for propagation pattern refinement. Propagation patterns are employed as an interesting specification formalism for modeling operational requirements. They encourage the reuse of operational specifications against the structural modification of an object-oriented schema. Propagation pattern refinement is suited for the specification of reusable operational modules. It promotes the reusability of propagation patterns toward the operational requirement changes. This approach has a formal basis and emphasizes structural derivation of specifications. The main innovations are in raising the level of abstraction for behavioral schema design, and for making possible the derivation of operational semantics from structural specifications. As a result, both the modularity and reusability of object-oriented schemas are increased.

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Object-oriented software evolution

Lieberherr

Xiao

1993

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Experience with a graph-based propagation programming tool

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Jungloid mining

Jungloid mining

The role of polymorphic reuse mechanisms in schema evolution in an object-oriented database

Object-oriented software evolution

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