This repository contains the ARES source code, a description of the ARES rule system and the evaluation results of the research paper "G. Dotzler, M. Kamp, P. Kreutzer, M. Philippsen: More Accurate Recommendations for Method-Level Changes".

It also contains the ARES/C3 evaluation of the PhD thesis "G. Dotzler: Learning Code Transformations from Repositories, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2018". https://doi.org/10.25593/978-3-96147-142-3

Archived copy of the research paper:

Archived copy of the PhD thesis:

This repository is structured as follows:

• doc/rules.md: Contains a descripton of the rules from the Edit Script Adjustment step in ARES.

• doc/examples.md: Contains some examples.

• data/examples: Contains the source code to the examples.

• data/junit_evaluation: Contains the input description and results of the junit evaluation as JSON files.

  • The dataset contains code snippets from JUnit.
  • JUnit is licensed under the Eclipse Public License v1.0, see LICENSE.epl.

• data/lase_evaluation: Contains the input description and results of the LASE dataset as JSON files.

  • The dataset contains code snippets from ECLIPSE JDT Core and ECLIPSE SWT.
  • Eclipse JDT Core is licensed under the Eclipse Public License v1.0, see LICENSE.epl.
  • Eclipse SWT is licensed under the Eclipse Public License v1.0, see LICENSE.epl.

• data/cthree_evaluation_phdthesis:

  • The dataset contains code snippets from Ant, Checkstyle, Cobertura, DrJava, ECLIPSE JDT Core, ECLIPSE SWT, Fitlibrary, JGraphT and JUnit.
  • Ant is licensed under the Apache License v2, see LICENSE.apache;
  • Checkstyle is licensed under the GNU LGPL v2.1, see LICENSE.lgpl;
  • Cobertura is licensed under the GNU GPL v2, see LICENSE.gpl;
  • DrJava is licensed under the BSD license, see LICENSE.drjava.bsd;
  • Eclipse JDT Core is licensed under the Eclipse Public License v1.0, see LICENSE.epl.
  • Eclipse SWT is licensed under the Eclipse Public License v1.0, see LICENSE.epl.
  • Fitlibrary is licensed under the GNU GPL v2, see LICENSE.gpl;
  • JGraphT is licensed under the GNU LGPL v2.1, see LICENSE.lgpl;
  • JUnit is licensed under the Eclipse Public License v1.0, see LICENSE.epl.

• src: Contains the complete source code of ARES.

Note: ARES requires at least 16GB of main memory.

Build ARES:

./gradlew build

Run the examples in data/examples:

./gradlew executeExamples

Read evaluation results in data/junit_evaluation and data/lase_evaluation:

./gradlew readPhdThesisResults

Read evaluation results in data/cthree_evaluation_phdthesis:

./gradlew readEvaluationResults

Execute the evaluation of the LASE dataset:

./gradlew executeLaseEvaluation -PappArgs="['OUTPUT_PATH']" 

• Depending on your internet connection and device, this can take over an hour to execute. The execution requires a download of the ECLIPSE SWT and ECLIPSE JDT CORE repositories and needs to checkout several hundred revisions.

Execute the evaluation of the JUnit dataset:

./gradlew executeJunitEvaluation -PappArgs="['OUTPUT_PATH']" ,

• Depending on your internet connection and device, this can take over an hour to execute. The execution requires a download of the JUnit repository and needs to checkout several thousand revisions.

For convenience and for reproducible builds, it is also possible to run ARES inside a Docker container (see docker/).

Build the Docker image from the Dockerfile:

./build.sh

Start a Docker container and execute the specified Gradle tasks:

./run.sh <TASKS>

For example, type the following to execute the LASE evaluation:

./run.sh executeLaseEvaluation

• The source code of ARES in src is licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE.mit).
• data is licensed under the CC0 license (see LICENSE.c00).
  • The code snippets contained in each data file fall under the license of the respective projects (see above).