PHP AiR: Analyzing PHP systems with Rascal

Author

Hills, Mark ; Klint, Paul

Author_Institution

East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

3-6 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

454

Lastpage

457

Abstract

PHP is currently one of the most popular programming languages, widely used in both the open source community and in industry to build large web-focused applications and application frameworks. To provide a solid framework for working with large PHP systems in areas such as evaluating how language features are used, studying how PHP systems evolve, program analysis for refactoring and security validation, and software metrics, we have developed PHP AiR, a framework for PHP Analysis in Rascal. Here we briefly describe features available in PHP AiR, integration with the Eclipse PHP Development Tools, and usage scenarios in program analysis, metrics, and empirical software engineering.

Keywords

Internet; object-oriented languages; program diagnostics; public domain software; security of data; software maintenance; software metrics; Eclipse PHP development tools; PHP AiR; PHP system analysis; Rascal; Web-focused applications; application frameworks; empirical software engineering; open source community; program analysis; programming languages; refactoring; security validation; software metrics; Java; Libraries; Manuals; Performance analysis; Runtime; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, Reengineering and Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE), 2014 Software Evolution Week - IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Antwerp

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR-WCRE.2014.6747217

Filename

6747217