Title :
An introduction to the WSL program transformer
Author_Institution :
Durham Univ., UK
Abstract :
The author looks at the reasons for developing program transformation systems and reviews the work in this area. He then presents the argument that program transformation is a valid approach to software maintenance. Next he describes the transformer built into the Maintainer´s Assistant, a tool that aims to help the maintainer recover specifications from code. He shows how it differs from existing systems, in particular, in using a subset of the language it is transforming in order to write the transformations themselves. Finally, he looks at ways of automating the transformation system and other unresolved issues
Keywords :
program processors; software maintenance; software tools; Maintainer´s Assistant; WSL program transformer; program transformation; software maintenance; Arithmetic; Automatic programming; Computer errors; Computer industry; Design automation; Feathers; Programming profession; Software maintenance; Software performance; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance, 1990, Proceedings., Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2091-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICSM.1990.131362