Characterizing the Usage, Evolution and Impact of Java Annotations in PracticeJ1
Annotations have been formally introduced into Java since Java 5. Since then, annotations have been widely used by the Java community for different purposes, such as compiler guidance and runtime processing. Despite the ever-growing use, there is still limited empirical knowledge about the actual usage of annotations in practice, the changes made to annotations during software evolution, and the potential impact of annotations on code quality. To fill this gap, we perform the first large-scale empirical study about Java annotations on 1,094 notable open-source projects hosted on GitHub. Our study systematically investigates annotation usage, annotation evolution, and annotation impact, and generates 10 novel and important findings. We also present the implications of our findings, which shed light for developers, researchers, tool builders, and language or library designers in order to improve all facets of Java annotation engineering.
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07:00 - 08:00 | I21-Version Control and ProgrammingTechnical Papers / Journal First / Software Engineering in Practice at Silla Chair(s): Sunghun Kim Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | ||
07:00 12mTalk | Towards Understanding and Fixing Upstream Merge Induced Conflicts in Divergent Forks: An industrial Case StudySEIP Software Engineering in Practice Chungha Sung University of Southern California, Shuvendu K. Lahiri Microsoft Research, Mike Kaufman Microsoft Corporation, Pallavi Choudhury Microsoft Corporation, Chao Wang USC | ||
07:12 8mTalk | Version Control Systems: An Information Foraging PerspectiveJ1 Journal First Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan Microsoft Research; School of EECS, Oregon State University, Mihai Codoban Microsoft, David Piorkowski IBM Research AI, Danny Dig University of Colorado, Boulder, Margaret Burnett Oregon State University | ||
07:20 8mTalk | How different are different diff algorithms in Git?J1 Journal First Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Hideaki Hata Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology DOI Media Attached | ||
07:28 8mTalk | Characterizing the Usage, Evolution and Impact of Java Annotations in PracticeJ1 Journal First Zhongxing Yu KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Chenggang Bai Beihang University, Lionel Seinturier , Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology | ||
07:36 8mTalk | Why Reinventing the Wheels? An Empirical Study on Library Reuse and Re-implementationJ1 Journal First Bowen Xu Singapore Management University, Le An Polytechnique Montreal, Ferdian Thung Singapore Management University, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique MontreĢal, David Lo Singapore Management University | ||
07:44 12mTalk | HeteroRefactor: Refactoring for Heterogeneous Computing with FPGATechnical Technical Papers Aishwarya Sivaraman University of California, Los Angeles, Jason Lau University of California, Los Angeles, Qian Zhang University of California, Los Angeles, Muhammad Ali Gulzar University of California, Los Angeles, Jason Cong UCLA, Miryung Kim University of California, Los Angeles DOI | ||