14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC'06) Reverse Engineering Scripting Language Extensions Athens, Greece June 14-June 16 ISBN: 0-7695-2601-2
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICPC.2006.42
Software systems are often written in more than one programming language. During development, programmers need to understand not only the dependencies among code in a particular language, but dependencies that span languages. In this paper, we focus on the problem of scripting languages (such as Perl) and their extension mechanisms to calling functions with a C interface. Our general approach involves building a fact extractor for each scripting language, by hooking into the language interpreter itself. The produced facts conform to a common schema, and an analyzer is extended to recognize the cross-language dependencies. We present how these statically discovered dependencies can be represented, visualized, and explored in the Eclipse environment.
Citation:
Daniel L. Moise, Kenny Wong, H. James Hoover, Daqing Hou, "Reverse Engineering Scripting Language Extensions," icpc, pp.295-306, 14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC'06), 2006 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||