Build Predictor: More Accurate Missed Dependency Prediction in Build Configuration Files

• Main Authors: Zhou, Bo, Xin, Xia, LO, David, Wang, Xinyu
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2417; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2014.12
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Software build system (e.g., Make) plays an important role in compiling human-readable source code into an executable program. One feature of build system such as make-based system is that it would use a build configuration file (e.g., Make file) to record the dependencies among different target and...