DMS: Software Tool Infrastructure
Google Tech Talk July 27, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Ira D. Baxter. Software systems continue to grow in size, complexity, and heterogeneity of structure. Manual methods for designing, implementing, and modifying software systems are becoming less effective. Tools to analyze application code to extract low level details ("static analysis") or architecture are becoming increasingly necessary. But the purpose of analysis is to support *change*. This talk will describe the DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit, a general purpose source code analysis and transformation system. DMS is a kind of generalized compiler, parameterized by language descriptions, analysis tasks and modification tasks, with mature language front ends for C, C++, C#, Java, Python, COBOL and a number of other languages, allows DMS to be applied to a wide variety of analysis and transformation tasks. DMS provides a kind of amortized infrastructure for tools in the same way that an OS provides amortized infrastructure for conventional application software; without the infrastructure, the cost of tools is much higher and delivery times are much longer. Its generalization allows also DMS to be used for an amazing variety of software engineering tasks. The talk will provide some description of the DMS infrastructure, and discuss a number of applications, including fully automated conversion of the mission software for the B-2 Stealth Bomber, large-scale architecture restructing of a C++ application system <b>...</b>
