srcML: An Infrastructure for the Exploration, Analysis, and Manipulation of Source Code: A Tool Demonstration

Author

Collard, Michael L. ; Decker, Michael John ; Maletic, Jonathan I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Akron, Akron, OH, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

22-28 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

516

Lastpage

519

Abstract

SrcML is an XML representation for C/C++/Java source code that forms a platform for the efficient exploration, analysis, and manipulation of large software projects. The lightweight format allows for round-trip transformation from source to srcML and back to source with no loss of information or formatting. The srcML toolkit consists of the src2srcml tool for robust translation to the srcML format and the srcml2src tool for querying via XPath, and transformation via XSLT. In this demonstration a guide of these features is provided along with the use of XPath for constructing source-code queries and XSLT for conducting simple transformations.

Keywords

C++ language; Java; XML; program diagnostics; program interpreters; query processing; software maintenance; software tools; C source code; C++ source code; Java source code; XML representation; XPath; XSLT; round-trip transformation; software evolution; software maintenance; software project analysis; software project exploration; software project manipulation; source-code query construction; srcML format; srcml2src tool; static code analysis; Communities; Java; Libraries; Software maintenance; Syntactics; XML; source transformation; srcML; static code analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2013 29th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Eindhoven

ISSN

1063-6773

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2013.85

Filename

6676946