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Key research themes
1. How can software metrics effectively identify key classes to support focused reengineering of legacy systems?
This research area focuses on leveraging combinations of complexity and coupling software metrics to identify the crucial or 'key' classes within large, object-oriented legacy software systems. Identifying these classes helps practitioners prioritize areas for reengineering efforts, thereby making the reengineering process more efficient and effective. Understanding the structural significance of classes through such metrics provides actionable insights for maintenance, refactoring, and system comprehension.
Key finding: The study introduces a practical approach that combines complexity and coupling metrics by plotting classes in a two-dimensional coordinate system to identify 'key classes'—those with high complexity and coupling. Case... Read more
Key finding: This paper emphasizes the role of code analysis techniques, including metric extraction, in software quality assessment and maintenance, highlighting how automated tools represent and explore code metrics (like complexity and... Read more
Key finding: Presents CrocoPat, a tool for querying software structures modeled as relations, enabling detection of design patterns and problematic structures (e.g., cyclic dependencies, irregular inheritance) through expressive... Read more
2. What models and platforms facilitate comprehensive static and dynamic software analysis for bug detection, security assessment, and verification?
This theme covers the development and utilization of integrated platforms and frameworks that unify static and dynamic program analysis techniques to facilitate automated detection of software vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and other quality defects. The research investigates how abstraction levels and unified intermediate representations enable scalable, precise analyses, including symbolic execution, SMT-solving, and integration of multiple analysis engines, enhancing the efficiency and applicability of software verification in real-world settings.
Key finding: Introduces Kex, a layered platform for JVM bytecode analysis providing (1) Kfg: an SSA-based control flow graph representation; (2) Predicate State: symbolic program representation using first-order predicates; (3) SMT... Read more
Key finding: Renraku provides a unified object-oriented static analysis model decoupling analyzers from reporting tools. It defines an extensible framework enabling multiple static analyses (e.g., linting, coverage, contract adherence) to... Read more
Key finding: Presents dynamic program slicing and analysis tools applied to Android apps to detect security discrepancies and vulnerabilities. Proposes AndroidSlicer for detecting missing progress indicators and security weaknesses via... Read more
Key finding: Proposes combining deductive verification with automated test generation to diagnose proof failures in annotated C programs. By transforming the program into testable code, the approach generates concrete counterexamples... Read more
3. How can runtime and partial observation analyses aid in software architecture recovery and model building for complex or binary-only systems?
This research investigates approaches to reconstructing software architectural models from systems where source code is partially or fully unavailable, such as proprietary binary formats or legacy monolithic applications. Techniques involving dynamic runtime instrumentation, partial observation via IDEs or reverse engineering runtimes, and clustering are studied to extract, model, and analyze system components, dependencies, and interactions. These methods facilitate maintenance, migration, and comprehension of complex legacy software under limited observability conditions.
Key finding: Develops a novel approach to reconstructing models of Microsoft Access applications—a partially observable system due to proprietary binary storage—by querying the IDE runtime via the Microsoft COM interface. Successfully... Read more
Key finding: Presents a method combining runtime binary instrumentation, execution tracing, static binary inspection, domain knowledge, and clustering (using LIMBO algorithm) to reconstruct component-based architectural views of... Read more
Key finding: Describes a simulator combining empirical data with process modeling to evaluate the effectiveness of software inspections at various development phases. Though not runtime analysis in the strict sense, this approach supports... Read more