Towards a Simplified Implementation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics

Marinescu, Cristina; Marinescu, Radu; Gîrba, Tudor (2005). Towards a Simplified Implementation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics. In: 11th IEEE International Symposium Software Metrics (p. 11). IEEE 10.1109/METRICS.2005.48

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To automatically analyze the code, the analyses must be implemented as software programs. As analyses become increasingly complex, implementing them using imperative and interrogative programming is oftentimes cumbersome. Consequently, the understanding, testing and reuse of analyses is severely hampered. In this paper we identify a set of key mechanisms that are involved in the implementation of any static analysis: navigation, selection, set arithmetics, filtering and property aggregation. We show that neither of the aforementioned approaches offers a simple support for these mechanisms and, as a result, an undesirable overhead of complexity is added to the implementation of most analyses. The paper introduces SAIL, a language designed to offer a proper support to a simplify writing of analyses. In order to validate the expressiveness of SAIL the paper provides a comprehensive comparison with the other two approaches.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF) > Software Composition Group (SCG) [discontinued]

UniBE Contributor:

Girba, Tudor Adrian

Subjects:

000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
500 Science > 510 Mathematics

ISSN:

1530-1435

ISBN:

0-7695-2371-4

Publisher:

IEEE

Language:

English

Submitter:

Manuela Bamert

Date Deposited:

30 Oct 2017 15:28

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:06

Publisher DOI:

10.1109/METRICS.2005.48

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.104623

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/104623

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