Working Session
QTAPC 2008
Program
| Tuesday, June 10 - room: Hendrikkamer | ||
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| 14:00 - 14:05 |
Introduction to the QTAPC Workshop Mathieu Verbaere, Semmle Ltd., UK |
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| 14:05 - 14:30 |
Invited Talk | |
| System-Level Program
Comprehension:
Query Language and Graph Transformations Suraj C. Kothari, Iowa State University, USA and EnSoft Corp., USA |
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| 14:30 - 15:30
Chair: Mike Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada |
Session #1: Query Technologies for Program Comprehension | |
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14:30 - 14:45 Using RSCRIPT for Software Analysis Paul Klint, CWI, The Netherlands 14:45 - 15:00 Querying Software Abstraction Graphs Daniel Bildhauer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Jürgen Ebert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany 15:00 - 15:15 Example-based Program Querying Andy Kellens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Johan Brichau, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Coen De Roover, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 15:15 - 15:30 General discussion on query technologies for program comprehension | ||
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 17:20
Chair: Mathieu Verbaere, Semmle Ltd., UK |
Session #2: Application and Evaluation of Query Technologies | |
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16:00 - 16:15 Towards a taxonomy of tools for documenting code design Sergio Castro, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Kim Mens, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Johan Brichau, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium 16:15 - 16:30 Evaluation of code query technologies for industrial use Tiago L. Alves, University of Minho, Portugal and Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands Peter Rademaker, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands 16:30 - 16:45 Querying Runtime Information in the IDE David Roethlisberger, University of Bern, Switzerland 16:45 - 17:00 Employing Query Technologies for Crosscutting Concerns Comprehension Marius Marin, Accenture, The Netherlands 17:00 - 17:20 General discussion on application and evaluation of query technologies | ||
| 17:20 - 17:30 |
Wrap-up | |
Call for papers:
Developers need to understand the system they work on in order to improve quality, enhance functionality, and re-engineer for new deployment environments. Querying tools are designed to help developers comprehend the varied and complex relationships within a codebase. They enable the interactive exploration of a system and the definition of custom views. Recently, code queries have proved useful in many development tasks, including detecting architectural flaws, identifying refactoring opportunities, finding crosscutting concerns, locating bugs and enforcing coding conventions that are specific to an API. Code queries are also vital in a diagnostic role, such as for monitoring development progress, assessing design quality, tracking unwanted dependencies, and gathering quality metrics.This working session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore the state of the art in code query technologies, and discover new ways in which these technologies may be useful in program comprehension.
We welcome contributions on the following topics:
- Code query languages
- Query evaluation mechanisms
- Artifacts models
- Tool integration
- Tool benchmarking
- Queries for quality assurance
- Queries for monitoring development
- Queries and software visualization
- Queries in reverse engineering
- Queries on software archives
- Queries for documentation purposes
- Any other (new) application
- position statements,
- tool demos, and
- proposals for comparative and empirical studies.
The submission deadline is May 14, 2008.
Please submit a PostScript or PDF version of your short position paper (in the IEEE CS proceedings style, two-column format) by email to one of the organizers:
Organizers
Mathieu Verbaere, Semmle Ltd. (mathieu at semmle dot com)Michael W. Godfrey, University of Waterloo (migod at uwaterloo dot ca)
Tudor Girba, University of Berne (girba at iam dot unibe dot ch)