MSR 2025
Mon 28 - Tue 29 April 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2025
Mon 28 Apr 2025 17:15 - 17:20 at 215 - Software evolution and analysis Chair(s): Mauricio Verano Merino

The dependency graph (DG) of a software project offers valuable insights for identifying its key components and, hence has been leveraged in numerous studies. Nevertheless, there is a lack of reusable tools for DG extraction. Existing tools are either outdated and difficult to configure, or fail to provide accurate analysis. However, Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are designed to address the above issues. This study introduces RefExpo, a reusable DG extraction tool that supports multiple languages, such as Java, Python, and JavaScript. RefExpo is a plugin based on IntelliJ which is a well-maintained and reputed IDE. In addition, we compile an initial version of our dataset consisting of 20 Java and Python projects. We evaluated RefExpo’s validity at two levels: specific language features and comparisons against other existing tools, which we refer to as the micro and macro levels. Our evaluation shows RefExpo achieving 92% and 100% recall on micro test suites Judge and PyCG for Python and Java, respectively. In macro-level experiments, RefExpo outperformed existing tools by at least 31% and 7% in finding unique and shared results (non-overlapping and overlapping with other tools). The installable version of RefExpo is available on the IntelliJ marketplace. Additionally, a short video describing its functionality is available on YouTube.

Mon 28 Apr

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16:00 - 17:30
Software evolution and analysisData and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers / Industry Track at 215
Chair(s): Mauricio Verano Merino Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
16:00
10m
Talk
50 Years of Programming Language Evolution through the Software Heritage looking glass
Technical Papers
Adèle Desmazières Sorbonne Unversité, Roberto Di Cosmo Inria, France / University of Paris Diderot, France, Valentin Lorentz Inria Foundation
16:10
10m
Talk
It Works (only) on My Machine: A Study on Reproducibility Smells in Ansible Scripts
Technical Papers
Ghazal Sobhani Dalhousie University, Israat Haque Dalhousie University, Tushar Sharma Dalhousie University
Pre-print
16:20
10m
Talk
Are the Majority of Public Computational Notebooks Pathologically Non-Executable?
Technical Papers
Waris Gill Virginia Tech, Muhammad Ali Gulzar Virginia Tech, Tien Nguyen Virginia Tech
Pre-print
16:30
10m
Talk
Understanding Test Deletion in Java Applications
Technical Papers
Suraj Bhatta North Dakota State University, Frank Kendemah North Dakota State University, Ajay Jha North Dakota State University
Pre-print
16:40
10m
Talk
A Public Benchmark of REST APIs
Technical Papers
Alix Decrop University of Namur, Sara Eraso University of Valle, Xavier Devroey University of Namur, Gilles Perrouin Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS & University of Namur
Pre-print
16:50
5m
Talk
What Do Contribution Guidelines Say About Software Testing?
Technical Papers
Pre-print
16:55
5m
Talk
Measuring InnerSource Value
Industry Track
17:00
5m
Talk
CoUpJava: A Dataset of Code Upgrade Histories in Open-Source Java Repositories
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Kaihang Jiang University of Waterloo, Bihui Jin University of Waterloo, Pengyu Nie University of Waterloo
17:05
5m
Talk
EvoChain: A Framework for Tracking and Visualizing Smart Contract Evolution
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Ilham Qasse Reykjavik University, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montréal, Björn Þór Jónsson Reykjavik University
17:10
5m
Talk
CoDocBench: A Dataset for Code-Documentation Alignment in Software Maintenance
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Kunal Suresh Pai UC Davis, Prem Devanbu University of California at Davis, Toufique Ahmed IBM Research
Pre-print
17:15
5m
Talk
RefExpo: Unveiling Software Project Structures through Advanced Dependency Graph Extraction
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Vahid Haratian Bilkent Univeristy, Pouria Derakhshanfar JetBrains Research, Vladimir Kovalenko JetBrains Research, Eray Tüzün Bilkent University
17:20
5m
Talk
HyperAST: Incrementally Mining Large Source Code Repositories
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Quentin Le Dilavrec TU Delft, Netherlands, Andy Zaidman Delft University of Technology
Pre-print