Current Parsing Techniques in Software Renovation Considered Harmful (1998)
| Venue: | Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Program Comprehension |
| Citations: | 52 - 15 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Brand98currentparsing,
author = {Mark Van Den Brand and Alex Sellink and Chris Verhoef},
title = {Current Parsing Techniques in Software Renovation Considered Harmful},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Program Comprehension},
year = {1998},
pages = {108--117},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}
}
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Abstract
We evaluate the parsing technology used by people working in the reengineering industry. We discuss parser generators and complete systems like Yacc, TXL, TAMPR, REFINE, CobolTransformer, COSMOS, and ASF+SDF. We explain the merits and drawbacks of the various techniques. We conclude that current technology may cause problems for the reengineering industry and that modular and/or compositional parsing techniques are a possible solution. Categories and Subject Description: D.2.6 [Software Engineering ]: Programming Environments---Interactive; D.2.7 [Software Engineering]: Distribution and Maintenance--- Restructuring; D.3.4. [Processors]: Parsing. Additional Key Words and Phrases: Reengineering, System renovation, Parsing, Generalized LR parsing, compositional grammars, modular grammars. 1 Introduction A hardly controversial statement in the reengineering community is that in order to reengineer software it is convenient to parse it. Maybe due to the overall agreement on this issue, ...
