Article
Semantic Patch Inference
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Publication Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
9-2012
Abstract
We propose a tool for inferring transformation specifications from a few examples of original and updated code. These transformation specifications may contain multiple code fragments from within a single function, all of which must be present for the transformation to apply. This makes the inferred transformations context sensitive. Our algorithm is based on depth-first search, with pruning. Because it is applied locally to a collection of functions that contain related changes, it is efficient in practice. We illustrate the approach on an example drawn from recent changes to the Linux kernel.
Keywords
- Software evolution,
- collateral evolution,
- semantic pat
Discipline
Publisher
27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
Citation Information
Jesper Andersen, Anh Cuong Nguyen, David LO, Julia Lawall, et al.. "Semantic Patch Inference" (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_lo/324/