Simplifying the construction of source code transformations via automatic syntactic restructurings

• Published in: Journal of software : evolution and process Vol. 29; no. 4
• Main Authors: Newman, Christian D., Bartman, Brian, Collard, Michael L., Maletic, Jonathan I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.04.2017
• Subjects: adaptive maintenance; C++ (programming language); Normalizing; restructuring; syntactic isomorphism; Syntax; Systems analysis; transformation; Transformations

A set of restructurings to systematically normalize selective syntax in C++ is presented. The objective is to convert variations in syntax of specific portions of code into a single form to simplify the construction of large, complex program transformation rules. Current approaches to constructing t...