Build System Analysis with Link Prediction

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

3-2014

Abstract

Compilation is an important step in building working software system. To compile large systems, typically build systems, such as make, are used. In this paper, we investigate a new research problem for build configuration file (e.g., Makefile) analysis: how to predict missed dependencies in a build configuration file. We refer to this problem as dependency mining. Based on a Makefile, we build a dependency graph capturing various relationships defined in the Makefile. By representing a Makefile as a dependency graph, we map the dependency mining problem to a link prediction problem, and leverage 9 state-of-the-art link prediction algorithms to solve it. We collected Makefiles from 7 open source projects to evaluate the effectiveness of the algorithms.

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

SAC '14: Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: March 24 - 28, 2014, Gyeongju, Korea

First Page

1184

Last Page

1186

ISBN

9781450324694

Identifier

10.1145/2554850.2555134

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2554850.2555134

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