Depends-Kotlin: A Cross-Language Kotlin Dependency Extractor

Since Google introduced Kotlin as an official programming language for developing Android apps in 2017, Kotlin has gained widespread adoption in Android development. However, compared to Java, there is limited support for Kotlin code dependency analysis, which is the foundation to software analysis....

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Published inIEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering : [proceedings] pp. 2370 - 2373
Main Authors Feng, Qiong, Ma, Xiaotian, Ji, Huan, Song, Wei, Liang, Peng
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published ACM 27.10.2024
Subjects
Accuracy
Bridges
Codes
Computer languages
Internet
Java
Software
Software engineering
Source coding
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Summary:Since Google introduced Kotlin as an official programming language for developing Android apps in 2017, Kotlin has gained widespread adoption in Android development. However, compared to Java, there is limited support for Kotlin code dependency analysis, which is the foundation to software analysis. To bridge this gap, we develop Depends-Kotlin to extract entities and their dependencies in Kotlin source code. Not only does Depends-Kotlin support extracting entities' dependencies in Kotlin code, but it can also extract dependency relations between Kotlin and Java. Using three open-source Kotlin-Java mixing projects as our subjects, Depends-Kotlin demonstrates high accuracy and performance in resolving Kotlin-Kotlin and Kotlin-Java dependencies relations. The source code of Depends-Kotlin and the dataset used have been made available at https://github.com/XYZboom/depends-kotlin. We also provide a screen-cast presenting Depends-Kotlin at https://youtu.be/ZPq8SRhgXzM.
ISSN:2643-1572
DOI:10.1145/3691620.3695354