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Lukas Renggli
October 04, 2011
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Domain-Specific Program Checking
Lukas Renggli
October 04, 2011
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Transcript
Domain-Specific Program Checking Lukas Renggli, Stéphane Ducasse, Tudor Gîrba, Oscar
Nierstrasz
Web Application Framework
14000 16000 18000 Seaside 2.6 Seaside 2.7 Seaside 2.8 Seaside
2.8.1 Seaside 2.8.2 Seaside 2.8.3 Seaside 2.9a1 Seaside 2.9a2 Seaside 2.9a3 LOC
1 2 3 4 Lint 14000 16000 18000 Seaside 2.6
Seaside 2.7 Seaside 2.8 Seaside 2.8.1 Seaside 2.8.2 Seaside 2.8.3 Seaside 2.9a1 Seaside 2.9a2 Seaside 2.9a3 LOC
1 2 3 4 Lint ??? 14000 16000 18000 Seaside
2.6 Seaside 2.7 Seaside 2.8 Seaside 2.8.1 Seaside 2.8.2 Seaside 2.8.3 Seaside 2.9a1 Seaside 2.9a2 Seaside 2.9a3 LOC
<a href="...">Remove Task 1</a> <br /> <a href="...">Remove Task 2</a>
<br /> <a href="...">Remove Task 3</a> <br />
renderTasksOn: html tasks do: [ :task | html anchor with:
'Remove Task ' , task number; callback: [ tasks remove: task ]. html break ]
renderTasksOn: html tasks do: [ :task | html anchor with:
'Remove Task ' , task number; callback: [ tasks remove: task ]. html break ] Modifies collection while iterating over it
‣ HTML generation ‣ Javascript generation ‣ Composition definition ‣
Control flow ‣ Application configuration Internal Domain- Specific Languages
1 2 3 4 Lint ??? 14000 16000 18000 Seaside
2.6 Seaside 2.7 Seaside 2.8 Seaside 2.8.1 Seaside 2.8.2 Seaside 2.8.3 Seaside 2.9a1 Seaside 2.9a2 Seaside 2.9a3 LOC
Generic (Lint) Program Checker
Generic (Lint) Program Checker Architecture Checker
Generic (Lint) Program Checker Domain-Specific Program Checker Architecture Checker
30 Domain-Specific Rules ‣ Possible Bugs ‣ Bad Style ‣
Suboptimal Code ‣ Non-Portable Code
renderTasksOn: html tasks do: [ :task | html anchor with:
'Remove Task ' , task number; callback: [ tasks remove: task ]. html break ] #with: has to be last message in cascade
renderTasksOn: html tasks do: [ :task | html anchor callback:
[ tasks remove: task ]; with: 'Remove Task ' , task number. html break ]
1 2 3 4 Lint 14000 16000 18000 Seaside 2.6
Seaside 2.7 Seaside 2.8 Seaside 2.8.1 Seaside 2.8.2 Seaside 2.8.3 Seaside 2.9a1 Seaside 2.9a2 Seaside 2.9a3 LOC
1 2 3 4 Lint Slime 14000 16000 18000 Seaside
2.6 Seaside 2.7 Seaside 2.8 Seaside 2.8.1 Seaside 2.8.2 Seaside 2.8.3 Seaside 2.9a1 Seaside 2.9a2 Seaside 2.9a3 LOC
Designed for Framework Development
Now used for Application Development
69% developers state “Slime produces more relevant results than Lint”
81% developers state “Slime helped me to detect critical bugs”
None
Generic (Lint) Program Checker Domain-Specific Program Checker Architecture Checker
Magritte Metamodel
Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description
* description
Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description
* description model
Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description
* description model metamodel
Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description
* description model metamodel <<described by>>
Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description
* description model metamodel <<described by>> meta-metamodel
Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description
* description model metamodel <<described by>> meta-metamodel <<described by>>
Person class>>descriptionUsername ^ StringDescription new accessor: #username; beRequired; default: nil;
yourself Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description * description
Description class>>descriptionLabel ^ StringDescription new accessor: #label; label: ‘Label’; beRequired;
yourself Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description * description
Generic (Lint) Program Checker Domain-Specific Program Checker Architecture Checker
Generic (Lint) Program Checker Domain-Specific Program Checker Architecture Checker Domain-Specific
Model Checker
Person class>>descriptionUsername ^ StringDescription new accessor: #username; beRequired; default: nil;
yourself Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description * description
Person class>>descriptionUsername ^ StringDescription new accessor: #username; label: ‘Username’; beRequired;
default: nil; yourself Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description * description
Person class>>descriptionUsername ^ StringDescription new accessor: #username; label: ‘Username’; beRequired;
default: nil; yourself Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description * description #label is a required value
Invalid default value Person class>>descriptionUsername ^ StringDescription new accessor: #username;
label: ‘Username’; beRequired; default: nil; yourself Person username birthday Description accessor label required priority * description * description
70000 Lines of Code 1100 Classes 300 Described Classes 12000
Methods
70000 Lines of Code 1100 Classes 300 Described Classes 12000
Methods 500 Magritte Issues
None
Implementation
Extends existing Program-Checker
Parse Tree Matching
scg.unibe.ch/research/helvetia
Declarative Rule System
Generic (Lint) Program Checker Domain-Specific Program Checker Architecture Checker Domain-Specific
Model Checker Domain-Specific Program Checking