CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2014/ch1a 14 yz
Refactoring Software Reengineering Toolkit
The 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.
DMS has been used to implement a wide variety of practical tools, include domain-specific languages (such as code generation for factory control), test coverage and profiling tools, clone detection, language migration tools, C++ component reengineering., and for research into difficult topic such as refactoring C++ reliably.
Introduction to the DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit
Introduction to the DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit
The DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit is a set of tools for automating customized source program analysis, modification or translation or generation of software systems, containing arbitrary mixtures of languages ("domains"). The term "software" for DMS is very broad and covers any formal notation, including programming languages, markup languages, hardware description languages, design notations, data descriptions, and domain-specific languages. This toolkit is the first step towards the implementation of the Design Maintenance System®, an ambitious vision of a 21st Century software engineering environment that supports the incremental construction and maintenance of large application systems, driven by semantics and captured designs.
A very simple model of DMS is that of an extremely generalized compiler, having a parser, a semantic analyzer, a program transformation engine (to do code generation and optimization), and final output formatting components (producing source code rather than binary code). It is particularly important that the analyzer output can be used to choose the desired transforms. Unlike a conventional compiler, in which each component is specific to its task of translating one source language to one target machine language, each DMS component is highly parameterized, enabling a stunningly wide variety of effects. This means one can change the input language, change the analysis, change the transforms, and change the output in arbitrary ways. Also, unlike a conventional compiler, DMS can process thousands of files from multiple languages at the same moment, allowing analyses and/or consistent code changes across complex systems of files. (An interesting property is that DMS reads formal descriptions of languages, analyses and transforms, and is consequently used to support itself.)
Many program analysis and transformation tools are limited to ASCII or Western European character sets such as ISO-8859; DMS can handle these as well as UTF-8, UTF-16, EBCDIC, Shift-JIS and a variety of Microsoft character encodings.
DMS uses GLR parsing technology, enabling it to handle all practical context-free grammars. Semantic predicates extend this capability to interesting non-context-free grammars (Fortran requires matching of multiple DO loops with shared CONTINUE statements by label; GLR with semantic predicates enables the DMS Fortran parser to produce ASTs for correctly nested loops as it parses).
DMS Capabilities
Avaiable Languages