Automatic method change suggestion to complement multi-entity edits
Journal of Systems and Software(2020)
Abstract
•Co-changed methods usually access existing fields or methods in common.•To evolve software, developers may incompletely change methods and introduce bugs.•We built CMSuggester to recommend changes based on common field/method accesses.•Based on our evaluation, CMSuggester outperformed three existing tools.•With change recommendations, CMSugguster helps developers identify missing changes.
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Key words
Multi-entity edit,Common field access,Common method invocation,Change suggestion
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