An oversampling approach for mining program specifications

Deng CHEN; Yan-duo ZHANG; Wei WEI; Rong-cun WANG; Xiao-lin LI; Wei LIU; Shi-xun WANG; Rui ZHU

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An oversampling approach for mining program specifications

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- An oversampling approach for mining program specifications
- 一种用于程序约束挖掘的过采样方法
- Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering Vol. 19, Issue 6, Pages: 737-754(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robot, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
  School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
  School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China
- Author bio：
  
  Deng CHEN, E-mail: dchen@wit.edu.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1631/FITEE.1601783
  CLC： TP311
- Received：06 December 2016，
  
  Revised：2018-;6-12，
  
  Published：2018-06
- Accepted：
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Deng CHEN, Yan-duo ZHANG, Wei WEI, et al. An oversampling approach for mining program specifications[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2018, 19(6): 737-754.
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Deng CHEN, Yan-duo ZHANG, Wei WEI, et al. An oversampling approach for mining program specifications[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2018, 19(6): 737-754. DOI： 10.1631/FITEE.1601783.

摘要

自动协议挖掘是获取精确而完备的API使用协议的有效方法。然而，与其它数据挖掘应用类似，自动协议挖掘方法需要足够多训练数据（即对象使用场景）作为输入。虽然通过增加程序的规模可提取更多数量的对象使用场景，但这会导致程序分析运行时开销较大。本文针对面向对象程序提出一种基于继承关系的对象使用场景过采样方法。给定一个面向对象程序

，一般情况下，执行

所能获得的对象使用场景数不超过运行时实例化的对象数。而本文方法可获得多达上述

倍的对象使用场景，其中

为程序

中一般对象使用场景的平均父类数。为了验证效果，在前期API使用协议动态挖掘原型工具ISpecMiner中集成上述方法并开展实验研究。实验采用扩展后的ISpecMiner从多个实际的程序中挖掘API使用协议。结果显示，采用本文方法获得的对象使用场景数是一般化方法的1.95倍。不仅如此，对比实验结果表明本文方法有利于挖掘更加精确而完备的API使用协议。特别值得关注的是，本文方法适用于无法实例化的类并挖掘出其API使用协议。这类API使用协议对于验证软件架构、程序说明和理解具有重要意义。虽然本文方法会增加一定的运行开销，但其仍在可接受范围内。

Abstract

Automatic protocol mining is a promising approach for inferring accurate and complete API protocols. However

just as with any data-mining technique

this approach requires sufficient training data (object usage scenarios). Existing approaches resolve the problem by analyzing more programs

which may cause significant runtime overhead. In this paper

we propose an inheritance-based oversampling approach for object usage scenarios (OUSs). Our technique is based on the inheritance relationship in object-oriented programs. Given an object-oriented program

generally

the OUSs that can be collected from a run of

are not more than the objects used during the run. With our technique

a maximum of

times more OUSs can be achieved

where

is the average number of super-classes of all general OUSs. To investigate the effect of our technique

we implement it in our previous prototype tool

ISpecMiner

and use the tool to mine protocols from several real-world programs. Experimental results show that our technique can collect 1.95 times more OUSs than general approaches. Additionally

accurate and complete API protocols are more likely to be achieved. Furthermore

our technique can mine API protocols for classes never even used in programs

which are valuable for validating software architectures

program documentation

and understanding. Although our technique will introduce some runtime overhead

it is trivial and acceptable.

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