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Reusing existing code instead of reinventing it is considered a good development practice. However, current software search engines often deliver merely somewhat similar results that usually need to be adapted when they should be integrated into an existing system. Since adaptation is a tedious and error-prone activity it has been the target of automation approaches for numerous years, but only recently the use of test-driven adaptation, based on ordinary JUnit test cases, was able to provide a working prototype for this purpose. Unfortunately, the adaptater creation lacks acceptable runtime behavior because it is based on a brute force algorithm, which significantly hinders the usability of test-driven adaptation in a test-driven reuse context where numerous, potentially complex candidates need to be adapted. Hence, in this paper, we present an optimized algorithm for this purpose that works in a branch-and-bound manner and demonstrate its capability by an “invitro” evaluation.
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Seiffert, D., Hummel, O. (2013). Improving the Runtime-Processing of Test Cases for Component Adaptation. In: Favaro, J., Morisio, M. (eds) Safe and Secure Software Reuse. ICSR 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7925. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38977-1_6
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