APIMigrator: An API-usage migration tool for Android apps

Mattia Fazzini; Qi Xin; Alessandro Orso

doi:10.1145/3387905.3388608

APIMigrator: An API-usage migration tool for Android apps

Mattia Fazzini, Qi Xin, Alessandro Orso

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

To provide their functionality, mobile apps interact extensively with the application programming interface (API) of the underlying operating system. Given that this API evolves frequently, app developers are periodically required to migrate API usages in their apps to ensure that the apps behave as expected when running on the new API. To help developers with this tedious, error-prone, and time-consuming task, we defined a technique for automated API migration and implemented it in a tool called APIMigrator that supports Android apps. APIMigrator (1) automatically migrates API usages within an app by leveraging how developers of other apps migrated corresponding API usages and (2) validates the migrations through differential testing. We evaluated APIMigrator on a benchmark of 15 real-world apps and obtained promising results. Overall, our tool was able to migrate 85% of the API usages considered and validate 68% of these migrations. We provide a demo video of the tool at https://youtu.be/v0VfpKi_IDc.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	77-80
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450379595
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3387905.3388608
State	Published - Jul 13 2020
Event	7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020 - Virtual, Online, Korea, Republic of Duration: Jul 13 2020 → …

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Name	Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020

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Conference	7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Virtual, Online
Period	7/13/20 → …

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Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by NSF, under grants CCF-1161821 and CCF-1563991, DARPA, under contracts FA8650-15-C-7556 and FA8650-16-C-7620, ONR, under contract N00014-17-1-2895, and gifts from Facebook, Google, IBM Research, and Microsoft Research.

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© 2020 ACM.

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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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API analysis
API-usage migration
mobile apps

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Fazzini, M., Xin, Q., & Orso, A. (2020). APIMigrator: An API-usage migration tool for Android apps. In Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020 (pp. 77-80). (Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3387905.3388608

APIMigrator: An API-usage migration tool for Android apps. / Fazzini, Mattia; Xin, Qi; Orso, Alessandro.
Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. p. 77-80 (Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Fazzini, M, Xin, Q & Orso, A 2020, APIMigrator: An API-usage migration tool for Android apps. in Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020. Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 77-80, 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020, Virtual, Online, Korea, Republic of, 7/13/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3387905.3388608

Fazzini M, Xin Q, Orso A. APIMigrator: An API-usage migration tool for Android apps. In Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2020. p. 77-80. (Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020). doi: 10.1145/3387905.3388608

Fazzini, Mattia ; Xin, Qi ; Orso, Alessandro. / APIMigrator : An API-usage migration tool for Android apps. Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. pp. 77-80 (Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2020).

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