Towards generating transformation rules without examples for android API replacement

• Main Authors: THUNG, Ferdian, KANG, Hong Jin, JIANG, Lingxiao, LO, David
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: API deprecation; API replacement; program transformation; Android; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4824; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5827/viewcontent/icsme19porting.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Deprecation of APIs in software libraries is common when library maintainers make changes to a library and will no longer support certain APIs in the future. When deprecation occurs, developers whose programs depend on the APIs need to replace the usages of the deprecated APIs sooner or later. Often...