Assessing the Exposure of Software Changes: The DiPiDi Approach
Context: Changing a software application with many build-time configuration settings may introduce unexpected side-effects. For example, a change intended to be specific to a platform (e.g., Windows) or product configuration (e.g., community editions) might impact other platforms or configurations. Moreover, a change intended to apply to a set of platforms or configurations may be unintentionally limited to a subset. Indeed, understanding the exposure of source code changes is an important risk mitigation step in change-based development approaches. Objective: In this experiment, we seek to evaluate DiPiDi, a prototype implementation of our approach to assess the exposure of source code changes by statically analyzing build specifications. We focus our evaluation on the effectiveness and efficiency of developers when assessing the exposure of source code changes. Method: We will measure the effectiveness and efficiency of developers when performing five tasks in which they must identify the deliverable(s) and conditions under which a change will propagate. We will assign participants into three groups: without explicit tool support, supported by existing impact analysis tools, and supported by DiPiDi.
Wed 19 MayDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
17:00 - 17:50 | Change Management and AnalysisTechnical Papers / Registered Reports at MSR Room 2 Chair(s): Sarah Nadi University of Alberta | ||
17:01 4mTalk | Studying the Change Histories of Stack Overflow and GitHub Snippets Technical Papers Pre-print Media Attached | ||
17:05 4mTalk | Learning Off-By-One Mistakes: An Empirical Study Technical Papers Hendrig Sellik Delft University of Technology, Onno van Paridon Adyen N.V., Georgios Gousios Facebook & Delft University of Technology, Maurício Aniche Delft University of Technology Pre-print | ||
17:09 4mTalk | Predicting Design Impactful Changes in Modern Code Review: A Large-Scale Empirical Study Technical Papers Anderson Uchôa Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Caio Barbosa Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Daniel Coutinho Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Willian Oizumi Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Wesley Assunção Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Silvia Regina Vergilio Federal University of Paraná, Juliana Alves Pereira PUC-Rio, Anderson Oliveira PUC-Rio, Alessandro Garcia PUC-Rio Pre-print | ||
17:13 4mTalk | Rollback Edit Inconsistencies in Developer Forum Technical Papers Saikat Mondal University of Saskatchewan, Gias Uddin University of Calgary, Canada, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan Pre-print | ||
17:17 3mTalk | Assessing the Exposure of Software Changes: The DiPiDi Approach Registered Reports Pre-print | ||
17:20 4mTalk | On the Use of Dependabot Security Pull Requests Technical Papers Mahmoud Alfadel Concordia Univerisity, Diego Costa Concordia University, Canada, Emad Shihab Concordia University, Mouafak Mkhallalati Concordia University Pre-print | ||
17:24 26mLive Q&A | Discussions and Q&A Technical Papers |
Go directly to this room on Clowdr