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Abstract | ||
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SafeGen is a meta-programming language for writing statically safe generators of Java programs. If a program generator written in SafeGen passes the checks of the SafeGen compiler, then the generator will only generate well-formed Java programs, for any generator input. In other words, statically checking the generator guarantees the correctness of any generated program, with respect to static checks commonly performed by a conventional compiler (including type safety, existence of a superclass, etc.). To achieve this guarantee, SafeGen supports only language primitives for reflection over an existing well-formed Java program, primitives for creating program fragments, and a restricted set of constructs for iteration, conditional actions, and name generation. SafeGen's static checking algorithm is a combination of traditional type checking for Java, and a series of calls to a theorem prover to check the validity of first-order logical sentences, constructed to represent well-formedness properties of the generated program under all inputs. The approach has worked quite well in our tests, providing proofs for correct generators or pointing out interesting bugs. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1016/j.scico.2008.09.007 | Sci. Comput. Program. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
domain-specific languages,existing well-formed java program,statically safe generator,traditional type checking,statically safe program generation,language extensions,correct generator,safegen compiler,generator input,static checking algorithm,program fragment,meta-programming,program generator,java program,first order logic,meta programming,domain specific language,theorem prover,type safety,generic programming,domain specific languages | Type system,Scala,Programming language,Computer science,Java annotation,Java concurrency,Real time Java,Theoretical computer science,Generics in Java,Java Modeling Language,Type safety | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
76 | 5 | Science of Computer Programming |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
3-540-29138-5 | 31 | 2.10 |
References | Authors | |
19 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shan Shan Huang | 1 | 202 | 14.60 |
| David Zook | 2 | 88 | 6.24 |
| Yannis Smaragdakis | 3 | 2247 | 147.50 |