Reconciling environment integration and component independence
SDE 4 Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Software development environments
Reconciling environment integration and software evolution
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
GENOA: a customizable language- and front-end independent code analyzer
ICSE '92 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering
A reverse engineering environment based on spatial and visual software interconnection models
SDE 5 Proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Software development environments
Automated assistance for program restructuring
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Tcl and the Tk toolkit
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
TRI-Ada '94 Proceedings of the conference on TRI-Ada '94
Managing design trade-offs for a program understanding and transformation tool
Journal of Systems and Software - Double issue on reengineering complex systems
Supporting the restructuring of data abstractions through manipulation of a program visualization
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Tool Support for Planning the Restructuring of Data Abstractions in Large Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Fast, Flexible Syntactic Pattern Matching and Processing
WPC '96 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (WPC '96)
Representation-independent program analysis
PASTE '05 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
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Interactive program analysis tools are often tailored to one particular representation of programs, making adaptation to a new language costly. One way to ease adaptability is to introduce an intermediate abstraction—an adaptation layer—between an existing language representation and the program analysis tool. This adaptation layer translates the tool's queries into queries on the particular representation.Our experiments with this approach on the StarTool program analysis tool resulted in low-cost retargets for C, Tcl/Tk, and Ada. Required adjustments to the approach, however, led to insights for improving a client's retargetability. First, retargeting was eased by having our tool import a tool-centric (i.e., client-centric) interface rather than a general-purpose, language-neutral representation interface. Second, our adaptation layer exports two interfaces, a representation interface supporting queries on the represented program and a language interface that the client queries to configure itself suitably for the given language. Straightforward object-oriented extensions enhance reuse and ease the development of multi-language tools.