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dc.contributor.authorKawuma, Simon
dc.contributor.authorNabaasa, Evarist
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-14T07:17:47Z
dc.date.available2022-06-14T07:17:47Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationKawuma, S., & Nabaasa, E. (2022). An empirical study of bugs in eclipse stable internal interfaces. arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.09134.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.must.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/2111
dc.description.abstractThe Eclipse framework is a popular and widely used framework that has been evolving for over a decade. The framework provides both stable interfaces (APIs) and unstable interfaces (non-APIs). Despite being discouraged by Eclipse; application developers often use non-APIs which cause their systems to fail when ported to new framework releases. Previous studies showed that applications using relatively old non-APIs are more likely to be compatible with new releases compared to the ones that used newly introduced non-APIs. Furthermore, from our previous study about the stability of Eclipse internal interfaces, we discovered that there exist 327K stable non-API methods as the Eclipse framework evolves. In the same study, we recommended that 327K stable non-API methods can be used by Eclipse interface providers as possible candidates for promotion to stable interfaces. However, since non-APIs are unsupported and considered to be immature i.e. can contain bugs, to this end there exist a need to first investigate the stable non-APIs for possible bugs before they can be promoted to APIs. In this study, we empirically investigated the stable non-API for possible bugs using Sonarqube software quality tool. We discovered that over 79:8% classes containing old stable non-APIs methods have zero bugs. These results can be used by both interface providers and users as a starting point to analyze which interfaces are well tested and also estimate how much work could be involved when performing bug fixing for a given eclipse release.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherarXiv preprint arXiven_US
dc.subjectEclipseen_US
dc.subjectInterfacesen_US
dc.subjectStabilityen_US
dc.subjectPromotionen_US
dc.subjectBugsen_US
dc.subjectEvolutionen_US
dc.titleAn Empirical Study of Bugs in Eclipse Stable Internal Interfacesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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