Paper Info
Title
A Flexible Framework for Quality Assurance of Software Artefacts with Applications to Java, UML, and TTCN-3 Test Specifications
Abstract
Manual reviews and inspections of software artefacts are time consuming and thus, automated analysis tools have been developed to support the quality assurance of software artefacts. Usually, software analysis tools are implemented for analysing only one specific language as target and for performing only one class of analyses. Furthermore, most software analysis tools support only common programming languages, but not those domain-specific languages that are used in a test process. As a solution, a framework for software analysis is presented that is based on a flexible, yet high-level facade layer that mediates between analysis rules and the underlying target software artefact; the analysis rules are specified using high-level XQuery expressions. Hence, further rules can be quickly added and new types of software artefacts can be analysed without needing to adapt the existing analysis rules. The applicability of this approach is demonstrated by examples from using this framework to calculate metrics and detect bad smells in Java source code, in UML models, and in test specifications written using the Testing and Test Control Notations (TTCN-3).
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICST.2009.34
ICST
Keywords
Field
DocType
existing analysis rule,software artefacts,flexible framework,test process,quality assurance,software artefact,automated analysis tool,high-level xquery expression,analysis rule,high-level facade layer,software analysis tool,underlying target software artefact,ttcn-3 test specifications,software analysis,xml,probability density function,java,software testing,inspection,source code,specification language,uml,application software,software quality,domain specific languages,unified modeling language,software metrics,programming language,data mining,software performance
Programming language,Software engineering,Software quality analyst,Computer science,Software security assurance,Software metric,Software verification and validation,Software quality,Software construction,Software framework,Software development
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jens Nödler140.43
Helmut Neukirchen214116.93
Jens Grabowski361873.49