Historage
Hideaki Hata, Osamu Mizuno, Tohru Kikuno · 2011
Software systems are changed continuously for adapting to the environment, correcting faults, improving performance, and so on. For in-depth analysis related to software evolution, it is informative to obtain the histories of fine-grained source code entities. This paper presents a tool named Historage that can provide entire histories of fine grained entities in Java, such as methods, constructors, fields, etc. A characteristic of Historage is the ability of tracing entity histories including renaming changes. We applied our technique to five open source software projects to quantitatively evaluate the renaming change identification.