III: Small: Collaborative Research: An Inductive Framework to Support Software Maintenance

III：小：协作研究：支持软件维护的归纳框架

• 批准号: 1063253
• 负责人: Huzefa Kagdi
• 金额: $ 24.62万
• 依托单位: Winston-Salem State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1063253&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: III; Small; Collaborative; Research; Inductive

Software maintenance and evolution is a vital and resource consuming phase of the software lifecycle. Introducing software changes is a particularly complex phenomenon in case of long-lived, large-scale, and globally distributed systems. Years of research efforts have recognized three core tasks to support developers during software maintenance: feature location (a starting point of a change in source code), impact analysis (other software entities that are also change prone), and expert developer recommendations (appropriate developers to implement changes). The research will develop a novel one-stop solution for these tasks by integrating and mining the latent information cluttered in structured and unstructured software artifacts produced and constantly changed during evolution of software systems, which are largely untapped in current solutions.This research program has three main goals: 1) Define a new integrated framework SE2 for a comprehensive analysis of software evolution, based on conceptual and evolutionary information, under a single umbrella, 2) Define new methodologies for software maintenance tasks based on SE2, and 3) Perform empirical studies to evaluate SE2 and supported methodologies. Central to our solution are the state of the art data mining, information retrieval, and program analysis methods. The research will formulate both theoretical foundations and deliver novel practical solutions to uniformly represent, analyze, and use them within the SE2 framework. Among the broader impacts the project includes production of software tools under open source licenses and collaboration with industry to transfer technology.

软件维护和演化是软件生命周期中一个重要的、消耗资源的阶段。 在长寿命、大规模和全球分布式系统的情况下，引入软件变更是一个特别复杂的现象。 多年的研究工作已经认识到在软件维护过程中支持开发人员的三个核心任务：功能定位（源代码更改的起点），影响分析（也易于更改的其他软件实体）和专家开发人员建议（适当的开发人员实现更改）。 该研究将通过整合和挖掘在软件系统演化过程中产生并不断变化的结构化和非结构化软件工件中杂乱的潜在信息，为这些任务开发一种新的一站式解决方案，这些信息在当前的解决方案中基本上没有得到利用。1）定义一个新的集成框架SE 2，用于在一个单一的保护伞下，基于概念和演化信息，对软件演化进行全面分析，2）定义基于SE 2的软件维护任务的新方法; 3）执行实证研究以评估SE 2和支持的方法。 我们的解决方案的核心是最先进的数据挖掘，信息检索和程序分析方法。 该研究将制定理论基础，并提供新的实用解决方案，以统一表示，分析和使用它们在SE 2框架内。 在更广泛的影响中，该项目包括在开源许可证下生产软件工具，以及与行业合作转让技术。