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CSER Research at Queen's
University
The Software
Technology Laboratory
at Queen's participates in the Canada-wide
CSER
initiative in software engineering sponsored by
NSERC
and a host of industrial partners. At present our
CSER project, in collaboration with the University
of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, the
University of Alberta and the University of Windsor
under project leader Prof. John Mylopoulos,
includes three specific subprojects of the CSER
initiative in Software Reengineering for
Network-Centric Computing sponsored by
Bell
Canada and
IBM
Canada.
Projects
Three specific
projects have been conducted at Queen's under
the direction of Prof.
James Cordy of the
School
of Computing and
Prof.
Thomas Dean of the
Department
of Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
The
Whole Website Understanding Project (WWSUP)
Prof. J.R. Cordy,
Prof. T.R. Dean, Xinping Guo, Mykyta Synytskyy,
Scott Grant, Ariel Li
The Whole Website
Understanding Project (WWSUP) explores the
analysis and design-level understanding of
entire websites from their source code. The
project seeks to automate an understanding that
transcends boundaries between languages (HTML,
style sheets, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Java,
Perl, etc.), and technologies (client, server,
database). The goal is to allow exploration of
improvements to the architecture and abstract
design of websites using refactorings that cross
language and technology boundaries in order to
improve website maintainability and long term
evolution.
This is a long term
project with many facets and interesting
challenges. Current work involves the integrated
parsing of client side source languages (HTML,
Visual Basic, JavaScript), client side clone
detection and refactoring, and Java applet
design recovery, analysis and
migration.
J.R. Cordy, T.R. Dean and
N. Synytskyy, "A
Language-Independent Approach to Detection of
Near-Miss Clones",
Proc. CASCON'04, 14th IBM Centre for Advanced
Studies Conference, Toronto, October 2004
(to appear), 12 pp. (Best paper
award).
S. Grant and J.R. Cordy,
"An
Interactive Interface for Refactoring Using
Source Transformation",
Proc. REFACE'03, 1st International Workshop on
Refactoring: Achievements, Challenges,
Effects, Victoria, November 2003, pp.
30-33.
N. Synytskyy, J.R. Cordy
and T.R. Dean, "Robust
Multilingual Parsing Using Island
Grammars",
Proc. CASCON 2003, 13th IBM Centres for
Advanced Studies Conference, Toronto,
October 2003, pp. 149-161.
N. Synytskyy, J.R. Cordy
and T.R. Dean, "Resolution
of Static Clones in Dynamic Web
Pages", Proc.
WSE 2003, IEEE 5th International Workshop on Web
Site Evolution, Amsterdam, September 2003,
pp. 49-58.
X. Guo, J.R. Cordy and
T.R. Dean, "Unique
Renaming of Java Using Source
Transformation",
Proc. SCAM 2003, IEEE 3rd International
Workshop on Source Code Analysis and
Manipulation, Amsterdam, September 2003, pp.
151-160.
The
Software Design Ontology Project
Prof. J.R. Cordy,
Prof. T.R. Dean, Dean Jin
The Software Design
Ontology Project is aimed at the problem of
interoperability of legacy software system
understanding, analysis and migration toolsets.
While many different practical systems for
software system understanding and analysis have
been demonstrated, each uses it own unique
format, technology and schema to represent
recovered software design information. Using a
constructive approach to deriving a shared
"domain ontology" for software design concepts
that can be used as a bridge between different
formats, schemas and tools.
Current work on this
project has derived a taxonomy of styles of
schema use in software understanding systems,
and is in the process of analyzing a range of
software understanding and analysis tools. By
partitioning the interaction of these tools with
their databases into a set of conceptual
transactions, we hope to constructively derive a
domain ontology for software understanding that
can be used, for example, to adapt one tool's
software analysis services to another tool's
software understanding
database.
D. Jin and J.R. Cordy,
"Ontology-Based
Software Analysis and Reengineering Tool
Integration: The OASIS Service-Sharing
Methodology",
Proc. ICSM 2005, IEEE 21st International
Conference on Software Maintenance,
Budapest, September 2005, 4 pp. (to
appear).
D. Jin and J.R. Cordy,
"A
Service Sharing Approach to Integrating Program
Comprehension Tools",
Proc. European Software Engineering
Conference (ESEC) / ACM Symposium on the
Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2003
Workshop on Tool Integration in System
Development, Helsinki, September 2003, pp.
73-78.
D. Jin, J.R. Cordy and
T.R. Dean, "Transparent
Reverse Engineering Tool Integration Using a
Conceptual Transaction
Adapter", Proc.
CSMR 2003, IEEE 7th European Conference on
Software Maintenance and Reengineering,
Benevento, Italy, March 2003, pp.
399-408.
D. Jin, J.R. Cordy and
T.R. Dean, "Where's
the Schema? A Taxonomy of Patterns for Software
Exchange",
Proc. IWPC 2002 - IEEE 10th International
Workshop on Program Comprehension, Paris,
June 2002, pp. 65-74.
The
Transformation Engineering Toolkit for
Eclipse
Prof. J.R. Cordy,
Derek Shimozawa, Adrian Thurston
The goal of this project
is to make it possible for instructors to more
rapidly bring state of the art transformation
techniques into the undergraduate curriculum
with a minimum of overhead. Transformations are
playing an increasingly important role in
industrial solutions. By removing barriers to
learning about them by providing a custom
workbench for understanding and authoring
transformations couched in the familiar Eclipse
environment, TETE will help to make it possible
for more students and instructors to discover
and explore this important new technology, and
for experienced practitioners to more
effectively exploit and explore source
transformation as a primary software
manipulation technology.
D. Shimozawa and J.R.
Cordy, "TETE:
A Source Transformation Environment for
Eclipse",
Eclipse Research-Industry Technology Exchange,
EclipseCon 2005, Burlingame, California,
February 2005, 2 pp.
J.R. Cordy,
"Comprehending
Reality: Practical Challenges to Software
Maintenance Automation",
Proc. IWPC 2003, IEEE 11th International
Workshop on Program Comprehension, Portland,
Oregon, May 2003, pp. 196-206 (Keynote
paper).
T.R. Dean, J.R. Cordy,
A.J. Malton and K.A. Schneider, "Grammar
Programming in TXL",
Proc. SCAM'02 - IEEE 2nd International
Workshop on Source Code Analysis and
Manipulation, Montreal, October 2002, pp.
93-102.
J.R. Cordy, T.R. Dean,
A.J.. Malton and K.A.. Schneider,
"Source
Transformation in Software Engineering using the
TXL Transformation
System", Special
Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation,
Journal of Information and Software
Technology 44,13 (October 2002), pp.
827-837.
Software
Tuning Panels for Autonomic Control
Prof. J.R. Cordy,
Liz Dancy, Nevon Brake
This project leverages
existing software analysis, refactoring and
transformation techniques to identify and
isolate tuning and other system parameters in a
separate "tuning panel" for the software system.
In essence, the goal is to provide a framework
to automate the rearchitecting of software
systems for more effective autonomic operation
by getting the software "knobs and switches" all
in one place, without violating the integrity
and maintainability of the system. The problem
is roughly analogous to the problem of hardware
layout constraints that provide for contacts or
controls to be isolated at the accessible edges
of a silicon chip or printed circuit board while
maintaining the architectural integrity of the
circuit.
Cordy
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