Application programming interface recommendation for smart contract using deep learning from augmented code representation

Application programming interface (API) recommendation plays a crucial role in facilitating smart contract development by providing developers with a ranked list of candidate APIs for specific recommendation points. Deep learning‐based approaches have shown promising results in this field. However,...

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Vydané v:Journal of software : evolution and process Ročník 36; číslo 8
Hlavní autori: Cai, Jie, Cai, Qian, Li, Bin, Zhang, Jiale, Sun, Xiaobing
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Chichester Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.08.2024
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Ablation
API recommendation
Application programming interface
Data augmentation
Deep learning
Pruning
Representations
smart contract
static analysis
ISSN:2047-7473, 2047-7481
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Shrnutí:Application programming interface (API) recommendation plays a crucial role in facilitating smart contract development by providing developers with a ranked list of candidate APIs for specific recommendation points. Deep learning‐based approaches have shown promising results in this field. However, existing approaches mainly rely on token sequences or syntax trees (ASTs) for learning recommendation point‐related features, which may overlook the essential knowledge implied in the relations between or within statements and may include task‐irrelevant components during feature learning. To address these limitations, we propose a novel code graph called pruned and augmented AST (pa‐AST). Our approach enhances the AST by incorporating additional knowledge derived from the control and data flow relations between and within statements in the smart contract code. Through this augmentation, the pa‐AST can better represent the semantic features of the code. Furthermore, we conduct AST pruning to eliminate task‐irrelevant components based on the identified flow relations. This step helps mitigate the interference caused by these irrelevant parts during the model feature learning process. Additionally, we extract the API sequence surrounding the recommendation point to provide supplementary knowledge for the model learning. The experimental results demonstrate our proposed approach achieving an average mean reciprocal rank (MRR) of 68.02%, outperforming the baselines' performance. Furthermore, through ablation experiments, we explore the effectiveness of our proposed code representation approach. The results indicate that combining pa‐AST with the API sequence yields improved performance compared with using them individually. Moreover, our AST augmentation and pruning techniques significantly contribute to the overall results. This paper proposes a learning‐based approach for API recommendation in smart contracts. We propose a code graph named pruned and augmented AST (pa‐AST) with the API sequence to capture the semantic features surrounding recommendation points. Meanwhile, we utilize a GAT‐based model for code feature learning and API recommendation.
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ISSN:2047-7473
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DOI:10.1002/smr.2658