YAAB (Yet another AST browser): Using OCL to navigate ASTs

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2003-May, Issue , 2003, Pages 13-22

  Antoniol, G ^a   Di Penta, M ^a   Merlo, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

AST navigation; OCL; source code analysis; UML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SYNTACTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); XML;

ABSTRACT SYNTAX TREES; CURRENT STATUS; OBJECT CONSTRAINT LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PARADIGM; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; TARGET LANGUAGE;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84979010704     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2003.1199185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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