Content deleted Content added
remove some puffery and define some sections |
No edit summary |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{Infobox software
| name =
| title = DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit
| logo =
| screenshot =
Line 21:
| status =
| genre =
| license =
| website = {{URL|http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html}}
}}
The '''DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit''' is a proprietary set of [[program transformation]] tools available for automating custom source program analysis, modification, translation or generation of software systems for arbitrary mixtures of source languages for large scale software systems.<ref>[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=999466&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=55567354&CFTOKEN=76359207 ''DMS: Program Transformations for Practical Scalable Software Evolution''. Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering 2004] [http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Company/Publications/DMS-for-ICSE2004-reprint.pdf Reprint]</ref>
</ref> DMS and "Design Maintenance System" are registered trademarks of Semantic Designs.
==Usage==
DMS has been used to implement [[___domain-specific language]]s (such as code generation for factory control), test coverage<ref>[http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Company/Publications/TestCoverage.pdf Branch Coverage for Arbitrary Languages Made Easy]</ref> and profiling tools, [[Duplicate code|clone detection]],<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/ICSM.1998.738528 |title=''Clone Detection Using Abstract Syntax Trees''. Proceedings International Conference on Software Maintenance 1998 |doi=10.1109/ICSM.1998.738528 |s2cid=12834606 |access-date=2010-11-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010231613/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/ICSM.1998.738528 |archive-date=2012-10-10 |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription }}</ref> language migration tools, C++ component reengineering.,<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.infsof.2006.10.012|title=Case study: Re-engineering C++ component models via automatic program transformation|year=2007|last1=Akers|first1=Robert L.|last2=Baxter|first2=Ira D.|last3=Mehlich|first3=Michael|last4=Ellis|first4=Brian J.|last5=Luecke|first5=Kenn R.|journal=Information and Software Technology|volume=49|issue=3|pages=275–291|s2cid=13219993}}</ref> and for research into difficult topics such as refactoring C++ reliably.<ref>
== Features ==
Line 45:
Changes to ASTs can be accomplished by both procedural methods coded in PARLANSE and source-to-source tree transformations coded as [[rewrite rule]]s using surface-syntax conditioned by any extracted program facts, using DMS's Rule Specification Language (RSL). The rewrite rule engine supporting RSL handles associative and commutative rules. A rewrite rule for C to replace a complex condition by the <code>?:</code> operator be written as:
<syntaxhighlight lang="text">
</syntaxhighlight>
Rewrite '''rule'''s have names, e.g. '''simplify_conditional_assignment'''. Each rule has a ''"match this"'' and ''"replace by that"'' pattern pair separated by '''->''', in our example, on separate lines for readability. The patterns must correspond to language syntax categories; in this case, both patterns must be of syntax category '''statement''' also separated in sympathy with the patterns by '''->'''. Target language (e.g., C) surface syntax is coded inside meta-quotes '''"''', to separate rewrite-rule syntax from that of the target language. Backslashes inside meta-quotes represent ___domain escapes, to indicate pattern meta variables (e.g., '''\v''', '''\e1''', '''\e2''') that match any language construct corresponding to the metavariable declaration in the signature line, e.g., '''e1''' must be of syntactic category: ''(any) expression''. If a metavariable is mentioned multiple times in the ''match'' pattern, it must match to identical subtrees; the same identically shaped '''v''' must occur in both assignments in the match pattern in this example. Metavariables in the ''replace'' pattern are replaced by the corresponding matches from the left side. A conditional clause '''if''' provides an additional condition that must be met for the rule to apply, e.g., that the matched metavariable '''v''', being an arbitrary left-hand side, must not have a side effect (e.g., cannot be of the form of '''a[i++]'''; the '''no_side_effects''' predicate is defined by an analyzer built with other DMS mechanisms).
Line 55:
Achieving a complex transformation on code is accomplished by providing a number of rules that cooperate to achieve the desired effect. The ruleset is focused on portions of the program by metaprograms coded in PARLANSE.
A
== References ==
Line 62:
==External links==
* [http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit main web page]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dms Software Reengineering Toolkit}}
| |||