PolyFax: A Toolkit for Characterizing Multi-Language Software
Today’s software systems are mostly developed in multiple languages (i.e., multi-language software), yet tool support for understanding and assuring these systems are rare. To facilitate future research on multi-language software engineering, this paper presents PolyFax, a toolkit that offers automated means for dataset collection from GitHub and two analysis utilities—a vulnerability-fixing commit categorization tool (VCC) and a language interfacing mechanism identification/categorization tool (LIC). The VCC tool immediately assists with assessing the vulnerability proneness of a given multi-language project based on its version histories, while the LIC tool enables dissection of the most important aspect of the construction of multi-language systems. Application of PolyFax to 7,113 multi-language projects with 12.6 million commits showed its practical usefulness in terms of promising efficiency and accuracy for studying multi-language software.
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