DMS: Software Quality Enhancement via Automated Software Analysis, Modification and Generation

摘要

Most software engineering quality tools are analysis-centric point-solutions: they provide one kind of very specific specific analysis. If you can't find what your company needs off the shelf, however, building a custom tool is almost impossibly expensive. What is really needed is an available, agile cost-effect technology for not only doing custom analyses, but coupling those analyses to mechanically reliable change processes to effect improvements suggested by the analyses. This talk will describe DMS, a customizable analysis and modification engine that can automatically analyze and change large scale software systems. We will show how the undelying technology works and can be used to read and transforms programs written in arbitrary langauges. We will provide a number of interesting production application examples, including removal of preprocessor directives, XML parser generation, duplicate code detection, and automated translation of one programming language to another.