Paper Info
Title
Debinelle: Semantic Patches For Coupled Database-Application Evolution
Abstract
Databases are at the core of virtually any software product. Changes to database schemas cannot be made in isolation, as they are intricately coupled with application code. Such couplings enforce collateral evolution, which is a recognised, important research problem. In this demonstration, we show a new dimension to this problem, in software that supports alternative database backends: vendor-specific SQL dialects necessitate a simultaneous evolution of both, database schema and program code, for all supported DB variants. These near-same changes impose substantial manual effort for software developers. We introduce DeBinelle, a novel framework and domain-specific language for semantic patches that abstracts DB-variant schema changes and coupled program code into a single, unified representation. DeBinelle further offers a novel alternative to manually evolving coupled schemas and code. DeBinelle considerably extends established, seminal results in software engineering research, supporting several programming languages, and the many dialects of SQL. It effectively eliminates the need to perform vendor-specific changes, replacing them with intuitive semantic patches. Our demo of DeBinelle is based on real-world use cases from reference systems for schema evolution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICDE51399.2021.00307
2021 IEEE 37TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA ENGINEERING (ICDE 2021)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Databases, Evolution, Semantic Patches
Conference
1084-4627
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefanie Scherzinger112.04
Wolfgang Mauerer2518.19
Haridimos Kondylakis332536.63