Does This Code Change Affect Program Behavior? Identifying Nonbehavioral Changes with Bytecode

Maejima, Aoi; Higo, Yoshiki; Matsumoto, Junnosuke et al.

Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2020, 2020, 1103-1104

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Title
Does This Code Change Affect Program Behavior? Identifying Nonbehavioral Changes with Bytecode
Creator
CreatorName
Maejima, Aoi
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1000070452414 1000070452414
ORCID
0000-0002-8278-8975 0000-0002-8278-8975
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yoshiki.higo yoshiki.higo
Scopus Author ID
7004831134 7004831134
CreatorName
Higo, Yoshiki
CreatorName
Matsumoto, Junnosuke
NRID
1000030234438 1000030234438
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Scopus Author ID
7102741360 7102741360
CreatorName
Kusumoto, Shinji
Subject
Bytecode
Change analysis
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Description
A. Maejima, Y. Higo, J. Matsumoto and S. Kusumoto, "Does This Code Change Affect Program Behavior? Identifying Nonbehavioral Changes with Bytecode," 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Madrid, Spain, 2020, pp. 1103-1104, doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC48688.2020.0-119.
2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) [13-17 July 2020, Madrid, Spain]
Abstract
Developers occasionally conduct some source code changes that do not affect program behavior. We call such changes nonbehavioral changes. In this research, we propose a technique for determining whether a given commit includes only nonbehavioral changes or not by checking the differences of bytecode on the commit. If the bytecode is not affected by the commit, the proposed technique determines that the commit includes only nonbehavioral changes. As a result of experiments on six Java open source projects, out of the commits in which Java source files were changed, the commits of 8.6~22.4% consisted of only nonbehavioral changes. We also found new 25 patterns of nonbehavioral changes compared to a previous study.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Source Title
Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2020
Page
1103-1104
Date of Issued
2020-07
Language
English
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https://hdl.handle.net/11094/78336
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07303157
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https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC48688.2020.0-119
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