A Purely Functional Combinator Language for Software Quality Assessment

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Martins, P (Author) Other; Joao Paulo Fernandes (Author) FEUP; Saraiva, J (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: 1st Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, SLATE 2012, Braga, Portugal, June 21-22, 2012

Pages: 51-69

Indexing

Scopus - 5 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00A-ACQ

DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2012.51

Abstract (EN): Quality assessment of open source software is becoming an important and active research area. One of the reasons for this recent interest is the consequence of Internet popularity. Nowadays, programming also involves looking for the large set of open source libraries and tools that may be reused when developing our software applications. In order to reuse such open source software artifacts, programmers not only need the guarantee that the reused artifact is certified, but also that independently developed artifacts can be easily combined into a coherent piece of software. In this paper we describe a domain specific language that allows programmers to describe in an abstract level how software artifacts can be combined into powerful software certification processes. This domain specific language is the building block of a web-based, open-source software certification portal. This paper introduces the embedding of such domain specific language as combinator library written in the Haskell programming language. The semantics of this language is expressed via attribute grammars that are embedded in Haskell, which provide a modular and incremental setting to define the combination of software artifacts.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 18