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dc.contributor.authorKawuma, Simon
dc.contributor.authorNabaasa, Evarist
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-19T11:22:40Z
dc.date.available2019-12-19T11:22:40Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationKawuma, S., & Nabaasa, E. (2018). Identification of promoted eclipse unstable interfaces using clone detection technique. International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA), 9(5).en_US
dc.identifier.issn0975-9018
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.must.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/378
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, client developers often use non-APIs which may cause their systems to fail when ported to new framework releases. To overcome this problem, Eclipse interface producers may promote unstable interfaces to APIs. However, client developers have no assistance to aid them to identify the promoted unstable interfaces in the Eclipse framework. We aim to help API users identify promoted unstable interfaces. We used the clone detection technique to identify promoted unstable interfaces as the framework evolves. Our empirical investigation on 16 Eclipse major releases presents the following observations. First, we have discovered that there exists over 60% non-API methods of the total interfaces in each of the analyzed 16 Eclipse releases. Second, we have discovered that the percentage of promoted non-APIs identified through clone detection ranges from 0.20% to 10.38%.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)en_US
dc.subjectEclipseen_US
dc.subjectUnstable Interfacesen_US
dc.subjectNon-APIsen_US
dc.subjectPromotionen_US
dc.subjectEvolutionen_US
dc.titleIdentification of promoted eclipse unstable interfaces using clone detection techniqueen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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