Program analysis using interactive and visual querying

Author

Jridi, Jamel Eddine ; Sahraoui, Houari ; Langlais, Philippe

Author_Institution

DIRO, Univ. de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

5-5 June 2012

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

16

Abstract

We propose an interactive querying approach for program analysis and comprehension tasks. In our approach, an analyst uses a set of basic filters (information retrieval, structural, quantitative, and user selection) to define complex queries. These queries are built following an interactive and iterative process where basic filters are selected and executed, and their results displayed, changed, and combined using predefined operators.

Keywords

interactive systems; program diagnostics; program visualisation; query processing; reverse engineering; software maintenance; complex query; filter; information retrieval; interactive process; interactive querying; iterative process; program analysis; program comprehension task; software maintenance; user selection; visual querying; visualization; Information filters; Keyword search; Maintenance engineering; Measurement; Software engineering; Visualization; code querying; program analysis; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Search-Driven Development - Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation (SUITE), 2012 ICSE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1847-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUITE.2012.6225471

Filename

6225471