Abstract Syntax Trees - and their Role in Model Driven Software Development

Author

Fischer, G. ; Lusiardi, J. ; Von Gudenberg, J. Wolff

Author_Institution

Univ. of Wurzburg, Wurzburg

fYear

2007

fDate

25-31 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

38

Abstract

Abstract syntax trees (ASTs) are known from compiler construction where they build the intermediate data format which is passed from the analytic front-end to the synthetic back-end. In model driven software development ASTs are used as a model of the source code. The object management group (OMG) has issued a request for proposals for AST models. Various levels of abstraction can be introduced. ASTs can be used for program analysis and for program transformation. In this paper we present an eclipse based representation framework for ASTs.

Keywords

abstract data types; computational linguistics; object-oriented programming; program compilers; program diagnostics; tree data structures; abstract syntax trees; intermediate data format; model driven software development; object management group; program analysis; Aggregates; Cloning; Concrete; Data analysis; Informatics; Performance analysis; Program processors; Programming; Proposals; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Advances, 2007. ICSEA 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cap Esterel

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2937-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-2937-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSEA.2007.12

Filename

4299919