Using Program Analysis Infrastructure for Software Maintenance
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Enabling the reuse of available techniques and tools for software maintenance is a major topic. However, research focuses mostly on two topics: parsing and tool interoperability. In the future, more sophisticated approaches to maintenance will be needed and dataflow analysis has to be used. As building dataflow analyzers for real languages is expensive, we must start to provide reusable dataflow analysis infrastructures for software maintenance. This paper first reports on our experience in building program analysis based maintenance tools. From that perspective, we formulate specific requirements for reusable program analysis infrastructures and then take a look at some program analysis infrastructures from compiler optimization research to evaluate if they are (re)usable for software maintenance tools.
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