ChangeMacroRecorder: Recording Fine-Grained Textual Changes of Source Code

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Abstract

Recording code changes comes to be well recognized as an effective means for understanding the evolution of existing programs and making their future changes efficient. Although fine-grained textual changes of source code are worth leveraging in various situations, there is no satisfactory tool that records such changes. This paper proposes a yet another tool, called ChangeMacroRecorder, which automatically records all textual changes of source code while a programmer writes and modifies it on the Eclipse's Java editor. Its capability has been improved with respect to both the accuracy of its recording and the convenience for its use. Tool developers can easily and cheaply create their new applications that utilize recorded changes by embedding our proposed recording tool into them.

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@inproceedings{maruyama-saner2018,
    author = {Katsuhisa Maruyama and Shinpei Hayashi and Takayuki Omori},
    title = {ChangeMacroRecorder: Recording Fine-Grained Textual Changes of Source Code},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering},
    pages = {537--541},
    doi = {10.1109/SANER.2018.8330255},
    year = 2018,
}