MigrationMiner: An Automated Detection Tool of Third-Party Java Library Migration at the Method Level

TL;DR

MigrationMiner is an automated tool that detects method-level third-party Java library migrations, accurately identifying code changes and associated documentation to facilitate understanding and analysis of library updates.

Contribution

The paper introduces MigrationMiner, a novel automated tool that detects and analyzes third-party Java library migrations at the method level with perfect accuracy.

Findings

Achieves 100% accuracy on validated migration benchmark

Successfully identifies code fragments replacing old library methods

Provides associated documentation for migration analysis

Abstract

In this paper we introduce, MigrationMiner, an automated tool that detects code migrations performed between Java third-party library. Given a list of open source projects, the tool detects potential library migration code changes and collects the specific code fragments in which the developer replaces methods from the retired library with methods from the new library. To support the migration process, MigrationMiner collects the library documentation that is associated with every method involved in the migration. We evaluate our tool on a benchmark of manually validated library migrations. Results show that MigrationMiner achieves an accuracy of 100%. A demo video of MigrationMiner is available at https://youtu.be/sAlR1HNetXc.