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Development histories can simplify some software engineering tasks, but different tasks require different history granularities. For example, a history that includes every edit that resulted in compiling code is needed when searching for the cause of a regression, whereas a history that contains only changes relevant to a feature is needed for understanding the evolution of the feature. Unfortunately, today, both manual and automated history generation result in a single-granularity history. This paper introduces the concept of multi-grained development history views and the architecture of Codebase Manipulation, a tool that automatically records a fine-grained history and manages its granularity by applying granularity transformations.
@inproceedings{Muslu15ase,
author = {K{\i}van{\c{c}} Mu{\c{s}}lu and Luke Swart and Yuriy Brun and Michael D. Ernst},
title = {Simplifying
Development History Information Retrieval via Multi-Grained Views},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Automated Software Engineering (ASE)},
venue = {ASE},
address = {Lincoln, NE, USA},
month = {November},
date = {9--13},
year = {2015},
doi = {10.1109/ASE.2015.53},
note = {DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2015.53},
pages = {697--702},
accept = {$\frac{17}{41} \approx 41\%$},
abstract = {Development histories can simplify some software engineering
tasks, but different tasks require different history granularities. For
example, a history that includes every edit that resulted in compiling code
is needed when searching for the cause of a regression, whereas a history
that contains only changes relevant to a feature is needed for
understanding the evolution of the feature. Unfortunately, today, both
manual and automated history generation result in a single-granularity
history. This paper introduces the concept of multi-grained development
history views and the architecture of Codebase Manipulation, a tool that
automatically records a fine-grained history and manages its granularity by
applying granularity transformations.},
fundedBy = {AFOSR FA8750-12-C-0174, NSF CCF-0963757, NSF CCF-1453474},
}