This is a small demonstration of DiffDetective. The purpose of this demo is to provide an example of how to use DiffDetective and to serve as a template project for you to clone and adapt as a quickstart for developing with DiffDetective.
There is a screencast available on YouTube, guiding you through the demo's setup with Maven in IntelliJ and how to implement variability-aware differencing and analyses of Git histories:
This demo, also manifests the artifact submission for our paper Variability-Aware Differencing with DiffDetective, accepted at the FSE'24 demonstrations track. A preprint of the paper is available as part of this repository, here. Our application for artifact badges can be found in the STATUS.md file. Please note that this submission is not a replication package of an empirical study (e.g., tool evaluation). Instead, this repository is a template project with examples for how to use DiffDetective as a library (i.e., a demo).
The demo is a Java Maven project, which includes DiffDetective as a library.
Software requirements are documented in the REQUIREMENTS.md file (there are no specific hardware requirements). Basically, you will have to install Java and Maven, or alternatively Nix or Docker.
Installation instructions are documented in the INSTALL.md file.