Do API-Migration Changes Introduce New Bugs?
The Eurasia Proceedings of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics(2021)
摘要
Software quality is broadly dependent on the use of dependent platforms, compilers, and APIs. This research reports a case study exploring the risk of API-migration activities in the regard of bug-introducing changes and software maintenance quality. The study involves screening tens of thousands of commits for six large C++ open source systems to identify bug-introducing commits caused by undertaking adaptive maintenance tasks through using traditional heuristic approaches. The obtained results show that 14.5% to 22.2% of examined adaptive commits enclose buggy code changes and so developers have to consider the potential risk of introducing new bugs after undertaking API-migration practices. Moreover, from investigating the bug fixing activities made by API-migration tasks, we provide a demonstration that typically these fixing activities do not cause further bugs and hence are safe undertakings. We feel that this work has developed a data set that will be used for constructing approaches to identify, characterize, and minimize potential adaptive maintenance practices that introduce bugs into a software system.
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