The atomic change set of Java programming language

Author

Liang, You ; Yansheng, Lu

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2012

fDate

14-17 July 2012

Firstpage

1090

Lastpage

1092

Abstract

Software configuration management computes the diff between the old version and new version of the program and represents the diff as added, deleted and updated text lines. The source code change represents the change type of code revisions in fine-grained levels such as class or field but rather to added, deleted and updated text lines. Atomic change is the minimal source code change. An atomic change can not be decomposed into other atomic changes. This paper defines the atomic change and the atomic change set of Java programming language. It analyzes properties of the atomic change set of Java programming language. It also emphasizes the differences of the binary compatibility and source compatibility of atomic changes of Java programming language. Finally, it gives a method for computing all source compatible atomic changes of Java programming language.

Keywords

Java; configuration management; programming languages; software engineering; Java programming language; atomic change set; binary compatibility; code revisions; minimal source code change; software configuration management; source compatibility; text lines; Educational institutions; Java; Object oriented programming; Software; XML; atomic change; atomic change set; binary compatibility; source compatibility;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2012 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0241-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSE.2012.6295253

Filename

6295253