CodeDiffNG: Advanced Source Code Diffing

CodeDiffNG was an applied PhD project carried out at Université catholique de Louvain and Raincode Labs in 2020–2023. We were interested in researching and developing methods of differencing source code beyond the state of the art in clone detection, program differencing and model comparison, and covering industrially relevant scenarios of producing and visualising codebase progress over years of active development, or comparing different preprocessors, or even distinguishing generated code from hand-written code...

Participants (alphabetically by surname)

• Nicolas Anquetil (committee member)
• Céline Deknop (PhD student)
• Serge Demeyer (committee member)
• Johan Fabry (supervisor)
• Kim Mens (promotor)
• Vadim Zaytsev (copromotor)

About us (in the media)

• Twitter: Upcoming at #profes2020: @ClineDeknop with a @RaincodeLabs story...
• LinkedIn: Caught a glimpse of the first meeting for the CodeDiffNG project...
• Twitter: Caught a glimpse of the first meeting for the CodeDiffNG project...
• UCL: Innoviris Applied PhD funding for Kim Mens
• LinkedIn: Céline Deknop presenting her paper on generating CFGs for legacy languages with semi-parsing…
• The work of Celine (one of us) won the best artefact award at the ICSME 2022
• Best Artefact Award at ICSME 2022 for Vadim Zaytsev, among others

Deliverables (latest first)

• Céline Deknop, Johan Fabry, Kim Mens, Vadim Zaytsev. Visual Assurance in Refactoring through Trace Equivalence of Control Flow Graphs, a Tool Demo track paper at SANER, 2024. 5 pages.
  • (BibTeX)
• Céline Deknop. Understanding Large Codebase Refactoring through Differencing, a PhD thesis, December 2023.
  • (BibTeX)
• Céline Deknop, Johan Fabry, Kim Mens, Vadim Zaytsev. Generating Customised Control Flow Graphs for Legacy Languages with Semi-Parsing, a software artefact accompanying the industry track paper at ICSME, 2022. Zenodo ID 6806075.
  • Best Artefact Award
• Céline Deknop, Johan Fabry, Kim Mens, Vadim Zaytsev. Artefact accompanying paper 1967, Recognizing and Rewarding Open Science in SE (ROSE) festival, 5 October 2022.
  • (archived version of the conference website)
• Wouter van den Brink, Marcus Gerhold, Vadim Zaytsev. Deriving Modernity Signatures for PHP Systems with Static Analysis, a NIER track paper at SCAM, 2022. 5 pages.
  • doi:10.1109/SCAM55253.2022.00027 (BibTeX)
• Céline Deknop, Johan Fabry, Kim Mens, Vadim Zaytsev. Visualising CFG Differences Through Trace Equivalence, a workshop presentation abstract at BENEVOL, 2022. 2 pages.
  • benevol2022:CelineDeknop (BibTeX)
• Céline Deknop, Johan Fabry, Kim Mens, Vadim Zaytsev. Generating Customised Control-Flow Graphs for Legacy Languages with Semi-Parsing, an industry track paper at ICSME, 2022. 10 pages.
  • doi:10.1109/ICSME55016.2022.00072 (BibTeX)
• Céline Deknop, Kim Mens, Alexandre Bergel, Johan Fabry, Vadim Zaytsev. A Scalable Log Differencing Visualisation Applied to COBOL Refactoring, a research paper at VISSOFT, 2021. 12 pages.
  • doi:10.1109/VISSOFT52517.2021.00010 (BibTeX)
• Céline Deknop, Johan Fabry, Kim Mens, Vadim Zaytsev. Improving Software Modernisation Process by Differencing Migration Logs, an Industry Track paper at PROFES, 2020. 16 pages.
  • doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64148-1_17 (BibTeX)
• Céline Deknop, Johan Fabry, Kim Mens, Vadim Zaytsev. Advanced Differencing of Legacy Code and Migration Logs, a WIP paper at SATToSE, 2020. 6 pages.
  • sattose2000:paper6 (BibTeX)

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