Towards SOA-Based Code Defect Analysis

Static code analysis is the analysis of software that is performed to acquire information concerning the dynamic behavior of programs built from that software, without actually executing the programs. Currently, most analysis techniques are implemented as independent tools, or plugins for integrate development environment (IDE, e.g., Eclipse). However, in this paper, we introduce a new way to release the analyzing ability: a Web Service based approach, which can integrate multiple analysis tools, and provides analyzing ability by way of standard Web Service interface. The user can benefit code analyzing ability by just submit the code to be analyzed to the service, without download any analyzing tools, and then get the merged result. The experiment shows that the proposed approach is feasible and efficient.