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Lightweight Call-Graph Construction For Multilingual Software Analysis, Anne-Marie Bogar, Damian Lyons, David Baird
Lightweight Call-Graph Construction For Multilingual Software Analysis, Anne-Marie Bogar, Damian Lyons, David Baird
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Analysis of multilingual codebases is a topic of increasing importance. In prior work, we have proposed the MLSA (MultiLingual Software Analysis) architecture, an approach to the lightweight analysis of multilingual codebases, and have shown how it can be used to address the challenge of constructing a single call graph from multilingual software with mutual calls. This paper addresses the challenge of constructing monolingual call graphs in a lightweight manner (consistent with the objective of MLSA) which nonetheless yields sufficient information for resolving language interoperability calls. A novel approach is proposed which leverages information from …
Lightweight Multilingual Software Analysis, Damian Lyons, Anne Marie Bogar, David Baird
Lightweight Multilingual Software Analysis, Damian Lyons, Anne Marie Bogar, David Baird
Faculty Publications
Large software systems can often be multilingual – that is, software systems are written in more than one language. However, many popular software engineering tools are monolingual by nature. Nonetheless, companies are faced with the need to manage their large, multilingual codebases to address issues with security, efficiency, and quality metrics. This paper presents a novel lightweight approach to multilingual software analysis – MLSA. The approach is modular and focused on efficient static analysis computation for large codebases. One topic is addressed in detail – the generation of multilingual call graphs to identify language boundary problems in multilingual code. The …
Lightweight Multilingual Software Analysis, Damian Lyons, Anne Marie Bogar, David Baird
Lightweight Multilingual Software Analysis, Damian Lyons, Anne Marie Bogar, David Baird
Faculty Publications
Developer preferences, language capabilities and the persistence of older languages contribute to the trend that large software codebases are often multilingual – that is, written in more than one computer language. While developers can leverage monolingual software development tools to build software components, companies are faced with the problem of managing the resultant large, multilingual codebases to address issues with security, efficiency, and quality metrics. The key challenge is to address the opaque nature of the language interoperability interface: one language calling procedures in a second (which may call a third, or even back to the first), resulting in a …