Program maintenance by safe transformations

Author

Overstreet, C. Michael ; Chen, Ji ; Byrum, Frank

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

24-27 Oct 1988

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

123

Abstract

A class of program transformations and data-flow-analysis tools is reviewed. The authors focus on supporting code reuse and maintenance by exploring transformations which modify programs. Typical purposes of modifications are to simplify programs, make side effects more visible, improve locality, or detect useless code. The authors review several methods which have been described for program simplification and identifying side effects. The authors describe an additional approach based on extracting information from parse tree representations of programs. The information is represented using various matrices; useless computations and side effects are identified through matrices

Keywords

data structures; software reusability; software tools; code reuse; data structures; data-flow-analysis tools; parse tree representations; program transformations; safe transformations; software reusability; software tools; Computer languages; Computer science; Data analysis; Data flow computing; Data mining; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Relational databases; Software maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 1988., Proceedings of the Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0879-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.1988.10151

Filename

10151