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Title

An object-oriented approach towards dynamic data flow analysis

Author(s)

Cain, Andrew;  Chen, T. Y.;  Grant, Doug D.;  Kuo, Fei-Ching;  Schneider, Jean-Guy

Abstract

Dynamic data flow analysis is a testing technique that has been successfully used for many procedural programming languages. However, for Object-Oriented (OO) programs, previous investigations have still followed a data-oriented approach to keep track of the state information for various data elements. This paper proposes an OO approach to perform dynamic data flow analysis for OO programs. In this approach, a meta-model of an OO programpsilas runtime structure is constructed to manage the data flow analysis for the program. An implementation of the model for the Java language is presented, illustrating the practicality and effectiveness of this innovative approach.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 08), Oxford, United Kingdom, 12-13 August 2008, pp. 163-168

Publication year

2008

Keyword(s)

Data flow analysis;  Data-oriented approach;  Dynamic data flow analysis;  Java language;  Meta-level programming;  Object-oriented programming;  Object-oriented programs;  Program instrumentation;  Program testing;  Software testing

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

ISSN

1550-6002 (series ISSN)

ISBN

9780769533124

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/QSIC.2008.18

Copyright

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