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 ABSTRACT
Library developers who have to evolve a library to accommodate changing requirements often face a dilemma: Either they implement a clean, efficient solution but risk breaking client code, or they maintain compatibility with client code, but pay with increased design complexity and thus higher maintenance costs over time.We address this dilemma by presenting a lightweight approach for evolving application programming interfaces (APIs), which does not depend on version control or configuration management systems. Instead, we capture API refactoring actions as a developer evolves an API. Users of the API can then replay the refactorings to bring their client software components up to date.We present catchup!, an implementation of our approach that captures and replays refactoring actions within an integrated development environment semi-automatically. Our experiments suggest that our approach could be valuable in practice.
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Danny Dig, Using refactorings to automatically update component-based applications, Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications, October 16-20, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA
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Danny Dig, Using refactorings to automatically update component-based applications, Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications, October 16-20, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA
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Danny Dig , Tien N. Nguyen , Kashif Manzoor , Ralph Johnson, MolhadoRef: a refactoring-aware software configuration management tool, Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications, October 22-26, 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA
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