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Software systems are getting larger and more complex. In a huge
program with more than 100,000 lines of code, it is very difficult to
find faults, without any supports of some tools. Technologies
which helps to debug and maintain large softwares automatically and
efficiently are expected.
One candidate approach would be program analysis. In our research
group, we study Program Dependence Analysis that applied to program
debugging and maintenance.
For example, in fig 1, the value of variable "a" defined at first statement is referred to at third statement, so a data dependency exists from the first statement to the third statment.
As is the case with previous, a data dependency also exists from second statement to third statement. Dependency essentially represents appearance of the flow of data in a program, and we can obtain these dependencies by program analysis.
When system outputs a wrong result as fig2, we can restrict the part which would contain a bug to the part which have the dependency with the wrong output. So program analysis makes it easy to find faults as fig3.
fig2: output a wrong result |
fig3: display the part which may contain a bug by dependency analysis with the wrong output |
Other subjects of research are "Change Impact Analysis" that identifies affected parts by change of program (For example, the affect of variable reference by change of variable name can be detectable.). We also study about "Alias Analysis" effective in dependence analysis of Object-Oriented Language.
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