A Structure-Driven Method for Information Retrieval-Based Software Change Impact Analysis
Joint Authors
Li, Tong
He, Yun
Wang, Wei
Lan, Wei
Li, Xiang
Source
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-16, 16 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-10-04
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
16
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
An important application of information retrieval technology is software change impact analysis.
Existing information retrieval-based change impact analysis methods select a single method to transform the source code corpus into vectors in a process known as indexing.
The single method is chosen from two primary methods, known as the bag-of-words and word embedding models, each having their specific advantages and disadvantages.
The bag-of-words model records every word in the source code but ignores contextual information in the corpus.
The word embedding model records the contextual information but loses detail for individual words.
To address this problem, we propose a structure-driven method for information retrieval-based change impact analysis (named SDM-CIA).
SDM-CIA integrates the bag-of-words and word embedding models based on the software’s structure.
Our experiments using a standard benchmark shows that when compared with the existing methods, SDM-CIA improves on precision performance, recall performance, F-score performance, and MRR performance by an average of 3.65%, 3.82%, 3.6%, and 10.28%, respectively.
Our experiments confirm the effectiveness of SDM-CIA.
American Psychological Association (APA)
He, Yun& Li, Tong& Wang, Wei& Lan, Wei& Li, Xiang. 2018. A Structure-Driven Method for Information Retrieval-Based Software Change Impact Analysis. Scientific Programming،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214714
Modern Language Association (MLA)
He, Yun…[et al.]. A Structure-Driven Method for Information Retrieval-Based Software Change Impact Analysis. Scientific Programming No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214714
American Medical Association (AMA)
He, Yun& Li, Tong& Wang, Wei& Lan, Wei& Li, Xiang. A Structure-Driven Method for Information Retrieval-Based Software Change Impact Analysis. Scientific Programming. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214714
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1214714