GPCE 2017
Mon 23 - Tue 24 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada
co-located with SPLASH 2017
Tue 24 Oct 2017 14:45 - 15:00 at Regency A - Analysis & Testing Chair(s): Jaakko Järvi

Most modern software languages enjoy relatively free and relaxed concrete syntax, with significant flexibility of formatting of the program/model/sheet text. Yet, in the dark legacy corners of software engineering there are still languages with a strict fixed column-based structure — the compromises of times long gone, attempting to combine some human readability with some ease of machine processing. In this paper, we consider an industrial case study for retirement of a legacy domain-specific language, completed under extreme circumstances: absolute lack of documentation, varying line structure, hierarchical blocks within one file, scalability demands for millions of lines of code, performance demands for manipulating tens of thousands multi-megabyte files, etc. However, the regularity of the language allowed to infer its structure from the available examples, automatically, and produce highly efficient parsers for it.

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Tue 24 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
Analysis & TestingGPCE 2017 at Regency A
Chair(s): Jaakko Järvi University of Turku
13:30
25m
Talk
Four Languages and Lots of Macros: Analyzing Autotools Build Systems
GPCE 2017
Jafar M. Al-Kofahi Iowa State University, USA, Suresh Kothari Iowa State University, USA, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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13:55
25m
Talk
Avoiding Useless Mutants
GPCE 2017
Leonardo Fernandes Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, Luiz Carvalho Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, Rohit Gheyi Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil, Melina Mongiovi Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil, Andre Santos , Ana Cavalcanti University of York, UK, Fabiano Ferrari Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, José Carlos Maldonado University of São Paulo, Brazil
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14:20
25m
Talk
Silverchain: A Fluent API Generator
GPCE 2017
Tomoki Nakamaru University of Tokyo, Japan, Kazuhiro Ichikawa University of Tokyo, Japan, Tetsuro Yamazaki University of Tokyo, Japan, Shigeru Chiba University of Tokyo, Japan
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14:45
15m
Talk
Parser Generation by Example for Legacy Pattern LanguagesShort paper
GPCE 2017
Vadim Zaytsev Raincode Labs, Belgium
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