- author = "Earl T. Barr and Mark Harman and Yue Jia and Alexandru Marginean and Justyna Petke",
- title = "Automated Software Transplantation",
- booktitle = "International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2015",
- year = "2015",
- editor = "Tao Xie and Michal Young",
- pages = "257--269",
- address = "Baltimore, Maryland, USA",
- month = "14-17 " # jul,
- organisation = "ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering",
- publisher = "ACM",
- note = "{ACM SIGSOFT} Distinguished Paper Award",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, genetic improvement, Automated software transplantation, autotransplantation, TXL",
- isbn13 = "978-1-4503-3620-8",
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URL = "
http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/autotransplantation/",
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URL = "
http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/autotransplantation/downloads/autotransplantation.pdf",
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URL = "http://www.human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/barr-harman-jia-marginean-petke-text.txt",
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DOI = "
doi:10.1145/2771783.2771796",
- acmid = "2771796",
- size = "13 pages",
- abstract = "Automated transplantation would open many exciting avenues for software development: suppose we could autotransplant code from one system into another, entirely unrelated, system. This paper introduces a theory, an algorithm, and a tool that achieve this. Leveraging lightweight annotation, program analysis identifies an organ (interesting behaviour to transplant); testing validates that the organ exhibits the desired behavior during its extraction and after its implantation into a host. While we do not claim automated transplantation is now a solved problem, our results are encouraging: we report that in 12 of 15 experiments, involving 5 donors and 3 hosts (all popular real-world systems), we successfully autotransplanted new functionality and passed all regression tests. Autotransplantation is also already useful: in 26 hours computation time we successfully autotransplanted the H.264 video encoding functionality from the x264 system to the VLC media player; compare this to upgrading x264 within VLC, a task that we estimate, from VLC's version history, took human programmers an average of 20 days of elapsed, as opposed to dedicated, time",
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notes = "Winner 2016 HUMIES
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cited by \cite{Lu:2018:ICSE}
http://issta2015.cs.uoregon.edu/papers.php also known as \cite{Barr:2015:AST:2771783.2771796}",
