An Extensible Meta-Model for Program Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Deep typechecking and refactoring
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications
A metrics tool for multi-language software
SEA '07 Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
Domain Specific Languages
Cross-language support mechanisms significantly aid software development
MODELS'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
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Today, software applications are usually not written in just one programming language. In many cases, a general-purpose language such as Java is combined with multiple domain-specific languages (DSLs) for diverse purposes such as system configuration, UI description, or database querying. The artifacts defined in those different languages reference each other, often by name; in most cases these references are essential for the functionality of the overall system. This introduces problems if an artifact is refactored in any single language, since most current refactoring tools are not aware of language-external uses of the artifact. What is therefore needed is extended refactoring support across language boundaries. In this work, we explore the area of cross-language linking and refactoring, and present an approach and tool which we evaluate in a systematic fashion using automated renaming and unit testing on an open-source case study.