Mining Billions of AST Nodes to Study Actual and Potential Usage of Java Language Features

by Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Hoan Anh Nguyen, and Tien N. Nguyen

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Section 5.1 - RQ1 - Do projects use new language features before the features are released?

Boa Program: first-uses.boa
Raw Data: first-uses.txt
Figure 3 Generator: firstuses.java

This material mines the first time a feature is used, shown in Figure 3.

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