An Extensible Meta-Model for Program Analysis

Author

Strein, Dennis ; Lincke, Rüdiger ; Lundberg, Jonas ; Löwe, Welf

Author_Institution

Omnicore Software, Karlsruhe

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

380

Lastpage

390

Abstract

Software maintenance tools for program-analysis and refactoring rely on a meta-model capturing the relevant properties of programs. However, what is considered relevant may change when the tools are extended with new analyses and refactorings, and new programming languages. This paper proposes a language independent meta-model and an architecture to construct instances thereof which is extensible for new analyses, refactorings, and new front-ends of programming languages. Due to the loose coupling between analysis-, refactoring-, and front-end-components, new components can be added independently and reuse existing ones. Two maintenance tools implementing the meta-model and the architecture, VizzAnalyzer and X-DEVELOP, serve as a proof of concept

Keywords

program diagnostics; software maintenance; software reusability; software tools; extensible meta-model; language independent meta-model; program analysis; program refactoring; software maintenance tools; software reuse; Buildings; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Costs; Data mining; Independent component analysis; Information analysis; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 2006. ICSM '06. 22nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2354-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2006.14

Filename

4021365