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ICSE 2020
Wed 24 June - Thu 16 July 2020
Thu 9 Jul 2020 08:19 - 08:31 at Silla - I18-APIs and Commits Chair(s): Massimiliano Di Penta

As Android platform evolves in a fast pace, API-related compatibility issues become a significant challenge for developers. Existing works mainly focus on detecting whether an app performs sufficient checks to avoid invoking incompatible APIs on platforms that do not support them. Besides checking the presence of compatibility issues, another important problem is how to fix/work-around these issues. To shed light on the current practice of fixing evolution-induced API compatibility issues, this paper performs the first large-scale study of compatibility issues for about 300,000 Android market apps, and more importantly, their solutions (if exist). However, it is in general very challenging to determine if developers have put in counter-measure for a compatibility issue, as different APIs have diverse behaviors, rendering various repair. We propose a learning-based approach, RAPID, that leverages static analysis and machine learning to build a classifier to determine if a compatibility issue has been addressed. Results show that the trained classifier is quite effective by achieving a F1-score of 95.21% and 91.96% in the training stage and the validation stage respectively. With the help of RAPID, our study yields a number of interesting findings, e.g. only 38.4% of the incompatible API uses are actually provided alternative implementation as a fix; the fix ratio for incompatible APIs with Google recommendations is significantly higher than those without recommendations, but Google only provides recommendations for very few APIs; developers find more ways to repair such issues than Google’s recommendations and there is a large room to improve the current status of compatibility issue handling.

Thu 9 Jul

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08:05 - 09:05
I18-APIs and CommitsNew Ideas and Emerging Results / Journal First / Technical Papers at Silla
Chair(s): Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio
08:05
8m
Talk
Enriching API Documentation with Code Samples and Usage Scenarios from Crowd KnowledgeJ1
Journal First
Jingxuan Zhang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, He Jiang School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Zhilei Ren Dalian University of Technology, Tao Zhang Harbin Engineering University, Zhiqiu Huang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
08:13
6m
Talk
Cooperative API Misuse Detection Using Correction RulesNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Sebastian Nielebock Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, Robert Heumüller Chair of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Jacob Krüger Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Frank Ortmeier Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Faculty of Computer Science, Chair of Software Engineering
DOI Pre-print
08:19
12m
Talk
How Android Developers Handle Evolution-induced API Compatibility Issues: A Large-scale StudyTechnical
Technical Papers
Hao Xia Fudan University, Yuan Zhang Fudan University, Yingtian Zhou Fudan University, Xiaoting Chen Fudan University, Yang Wang Fudan University, Xiangyu Zhang Purdue University, Shuaishuai Cui Fudan University, Geng Hong Fudan University, Xiaohan Zhang Fudan University, Min Yang Fudan University, Zhemin Yang Fudan University
08:31
12m
Talk
An Empirical Study on API Parameter RulesTechnical
Technical Papers
Hao Zhong Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Na Meng Virginia Tech, Zexuan Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Li Jia Shanghai Jiao Tong University
08:43
6m
Talk
Boosting Automated Program Repair with Bug-Inducing CommitsNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Ming Wen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, Yepang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology, Shing-Chi Cheung Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
08:49
12m
Talk
Software Documentation: The Practitioners' PerspectiveTechnical
Technical Papers
Emad Aghajani Software Institute, USI - Lugano, Switzerland, Csaba Nagy Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland, Mario Linares-Vásquez Universidad de los Andes, Laura Moreno Colorado State University, Gabriele Bavota Università della Svizzera italiana, Michele Lanza Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI), David C. Shepherd Virginia Commonwealth University
Pre-print Media Attached