Fine-grained processing of CVS archives with APFEL

In this paper, we present the APFEL plug-in that collects finegrained changes from version archives in a database. APFEL is built upon the Eclipse infrastructure for CVS and Java. In order to describe changes, APFEL uses tokens such as method calls, exceptions, and variable usages. We demonstrate the usefulness of APFEL’s database with several case studies. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.6 [Software Engineering]: Programming Environments – Integrated environments; D.2.7 [Software Engineering]: Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement – Restructuring, reverse engineering, and reengineering, Version control; D.2.9 [Software Engineering]: Management – Software configuration management. General Terms Management, Measurement, Experimentation. Keywords Tokens, Abstract Syntax Trees, Eclipse, CVS

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ECLIPSE
• Authors: Thomas Zimmermann
• Keywords: Abstract Syntax Trees, ECLIPSE 2006, Software Configuration Management, Software Engineering