Towards a domain-specific aspect language for dynamic program analysis: position paper

  • Authors:

  • Walter Binder;Philippe Moret;Danilo Ansaloni;Aibek Sarimbekov;Akira Yokokawa;Éric Tanter

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Lugano -- Switzerland;University of Lugano -- Switzerland;University of Lugano -- Switzerland;University of Lugano -- Switzerland;University of Lugano -- Switzerland;University of Chile -- Chile

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the sixth annual workshop on Domain-specific aspect languages
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Despite the increasing importance of dynamic analysis in modern software engineering, the basic abstractions used to develop dynamic analysis tools have not significantly improved for long time. Developing dynamic analyses with low-level instrumentation techniques is error-prone and time consuming, whereas high-level approaches using aspect-oriented programming limit expressiveness, because the join point model in current general-purpose aspect languages has not been especially designed for dynamic analysis tasks. In this position paper, we promote a new domainspecific aspect language for dynamic program analysis in order to provide new foundations for the productive development of flexible and efficient dynamic analysis tools