Toward Comprehension of Side Effects in Framework Applications as Feature Interactions

International Journal of Software Innovation

et al. 2015

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Recently many frameworks are deployed without proper documents to explain their correct usage. In the absence of proper documents, application developers often write code to call a framework API in a wrong way. Such a wrong API call tends to bring about a failure after its complex chain of infection inside of a framework. The complexity and the lack of implementation knowledge about a framework make it difficult for application developers to debug this kind of failure. In the preceding study the authors focused on unexpected side effects that are caused by wrong API calls and bring about failures, and developed a dynamic analysis technique to detect such side effects. In this paper, the authors introduce a case study to find a wrong API call using our technique.

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Section: Judgment Of Api Callsmentioning

confidence: 71%

“…We call classes (methods) contained in a framework framework classes (framework methods). We call those classes (methods) other than framework classes application-specific classes (application-specific methods) (Kume, Nakamura & Shibayama, 2012). Application-specific classes implement application-specific features.…”

Section: Application Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Case Study of Dynamic Analysis to Locate Unexpected Side Effects Inside of Frameworks

International Journal of Software Innovation

et al. 2015

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“…In our previous work [5] we introduced a practical framework application. It is a UML editor which was developed by a third party 1 and throws an exception at deleting a 3-ary UML Association.…”

Section: Symptoms Of Side Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An RPath from an object A to another object B is a sequence of references of instance variables and array components through which B is obtained from A [5].…”

Section: Framework Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A dynamic analysis technique to extract symptoms that suggest side effects in framework applications

Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

et al. 2014

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Program debugging forces time consuming tasks to locate defects on maintainers. Many existing supporting methods assume that maintainers can identify erroneous values and objects' states at runtime. However, such assumptions do not always hold in real program debugging.In this paper, we propose a dynamic analysis technique to extract symptoms which suggest a framework misuse in the process to update a state of an object. Symptoms help maintainers by showing which state updates are likely to be unexpected, even if maintainers can not decide if the updated states are correct or not. We developed a prototype tool to extract symptoms. We evaluate our method by applying it to a bug in a practical framework application developed by a third party.

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A Feature Model of Framework Applications

2013 14th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed C

et al. 2013