Exploration, Analysis, and Manipulation of Source Code Using srcML

Author

Maletic, Jonathan I. ; Collard, Michael L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Kent State Univ., Kent, OH, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2015

Firstpage

951

Lastpage

952

Abstract

This technology briefing is intended for those interested in constructing custom software analysis and manipulation tools to support research or commercial applications. srcML (srcML.org) is an infrastructure consisting of an XML representation for C/C++/C#/Java source code along with efficient parsing technology to convert source code to-and-from the srcML format. The briefing describes srcML, the toolkit, and the application of XPath and XSLT to query and modify source code. Additionally, a hands-on tutorial of how to use srcML and XML tools to construct custom analysis and manipulation tools will be conducted.

Keywords

C++ language; Java; XML; program compilers; program diagnostics; source code (software); C-C++-C#-Java source code; XML representation; XPath; XSLT; custom analysis; custom software analysis; manipulation tools; parsing technology; source code analysis; source code exploration; source code manipulation; srcML; Conferences; Robustness; Software; Software engineering; Tutorials; XML; XML; program transformation; srcML; static program analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering (ICSE), 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2015.302

Filename

7203124