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Proceedings of the Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications Year 2014 Peer-reviewed
Computer Science · Research

Automated Migration of Build Scripts using Dynamic Analysis and Search-Based Refactoring

Milos Gligoric Wolfram Schulte Chandra Prasad Danny van Velzen Iman Narasamdya Benjamin Livshits
2014
Publication year
OOPSLA
Venue
Peer-reviewed
Type

Problem

The efficiency of a build system is an important factor for developer productivity. As a result, developer teams have been increasingly adopting new build systems that allow higher build parallelization.

Approach

However, migrating the existing legacy build scripts to new build systems is a tedious and error-prone process. Unfortunately, there is also insufficient support for automated migration of build scripts, making the migration more problematic.

Results

The efficiency of a build system is an important factor for developer productivity. As a result, developer teams have been increasingly adopting new build systems that allow higher build parallelization. However, migrating the existing legacy build scripts to new build systems is a tedious and error-prone process. Unfortunately, there is also insufficient support for automated migration of build scripts, making the migration more problematic.

Cite this paper — BibTeX
@InProceedings{gligoric-migrating,
  author = "Milos Gligoric and Wolfram Schulte and Chandra Prasad and Danny van Velzen and Iman Narasamdya and Benjamin Livshits",
  title = "Automated Migration of Build Scripts using Dynamic Analysis and Search-Based Refactoring",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications",
  year = "2014",
}
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