JRipples: A Tool for Program Comprehension during Incremental Change

Abstract

Abstract

The Dynamic Function Coupling Metric and Its Use in Software Evolution

“…Some change propagation methods rely on high recall, in which case we can use a large d value (according to our experiments the smallest values where it reached 100% were around [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. On the other hand, other approaches benefit from better precision, in which case a close coupling (d = 1) should be chosen.…”

“…In their work, Rajlich and Gosavi define a lifecycle model that heavily utilizes static change impact analysis, while Buckner et al provide an experimental tool supporting this paradigm [10].…”

ImpactMiner: a tool for change impact analysis

“…provides an extensible framework that can be easily adapted and configured to support new search techniques. JRipples [3] is an Eclipse plug-in that uses static information to analyze dependencies between entities in order to help developers locate the impact set manually, by keeping track of visited elements and the elements that dependent on them. Chianti [4] is also an Eclipse plug-in that uses static information, in the form of changes between consecutive versions of the software, and dynamic information, such as execution traces of test cases.…”

“…ImpactMiner is a new addition to the limited suite of IA tools, such as JRipples [3] and Chianti [4], which use static and/or dynamic techniques. ImpactMiner uses co-changes from source code repositories, as well as, combining multiple sources of information.…”

JSEA: A Program Comprehension Tool Adopting LDA-based Topic Modeling

“…According to Corbi [3], program comprehension accounts for more than half of the software maintenance time. Researchers and practitioners developed tools that can assist developers in program comprehension, such as JRipples [4], Codecrawler [5], and SonarQube [6]. However, tools applying topic models to program comprehension has not been given as much attention.…”