MELT: Mining Effective Lightweight Transformations from Pull Requests

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14687v2
• Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 23:16:16 GMT
• Title: MELT: Mining Effective Lightweight Transformations from Pull Requests
• Authors: Daniel Ramos, Hailie Mitchell, Inês Lynce, Vasco Manquinho, Ruben Martins, Claire Le Goues,
• Abstract summary: MELT generates API migration rules directly from pull requests in popular library repositories. We infer transformation rules in comby, a language for structural code search and replace. Unlike previous work, our approach enables inference rule to seamlessly integrate into the library workflow.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Software developers often struggle to update APIs, leading to manual, time-consuming, and error-prone processes. We introduce MELT, a new approach that generates lightweight API migration rules directly from pull requests in popular library repositories. Our key insight is that pull requests merged into open-source libraries are a rich source of information sufficient to mine API migration rules. By leveraging code examples mined from the library source and automatically generated code examples based on the pull requests, we infer transformation rules in \comby, a language for structural code search and replace. Since inferred rules from single code examples may be too specific, we propose a generalization procedure to make the rules more applicable to client projects. MELT rules are syntax-driven, interpretable, and easily adaptable. Moreover, unlike previous work, our approach enables rule inference to seamlessly integrate into the library workflow, removing the need to wait for client code migrations. We evaluated MELT on pull requests from four popular libraries, successfully mining 461 migration rules from code examples in pull requests and 114 rules from auto-generated code examples. Our generalization procedure increases the number of matches for mined rules by 9x. We applied these rules to client projects and ran their tests, which led to an overall decrease in the number of warnings and fixing some test cases demonstrating MELT's effectiveness in real-world scenarios.

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