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Mutation testing is a program-transformation technique that injects artificial bugs to check whether the existing test suite can detect them. However, the costs of using mutation testing are usually high, hindering its use in industry. Useless mutants (equivalent and duplicated) …
The multi-stage programming paradigm supports runtime code generation and execution. Though powerful, its potential is impeded by the lack of static analysis support. Van Horn and Might proposed a general-purpose approach to systematically develop static analyses by transforming …
Embedded Domain Specific Languages are a powerful tool for developing customized languages to fit specific problem domains. Shallow EDSLs allow a programmer to program using many of the features of a host language and its syntax, but sacrifice performance. Deep EDSLs provide bett…
Feature Location (FL) is a common task in the Software Engineering field, specially in maintenance and evolution of software products. The results of FL depend in a great manner in the style in which Feature Descriptions and software artifacts are written. Therefore, Natural Lang…
Version control systems are an integral part of today's software and systems development processes. They facilitate the management of revisions (sequential versions) and variants (concurrent versions) of a system under development and enable collaboration between developers. Revi…
Building a reusable, auto-tuning code generator from scratch is a challenging problem, requiring many careful design choices. We describe HSpiral, a Haskell compiler for signal transforms that builds on the foundational work of Spiral. Our design leverages many Haskell language f…
Several applications are based on Domain-Specific Languages (DSL). They provide the right terminology to a peculiar problem/subject, because they use a particular domain vocabulary that defines abstract concepts, different from general-purpose languages. Aiming an easy generation…
This paper presents a tool named Silverchain, which generates class definitions for a fluent API from the grammar of the API. A fluent API is an API that is used by method chaining and its grammar is a BNF-like set of rules that defines method chains accepted in type checking. Fl…
Metaprogramming is among the most promising candidates to solve the abstraction vs performance trade-off that plagues software engineering through specialization. Metaprogramming has been used to enable low-overhead generic programming for a long time, with C++ templates being on…
Staging allows a programmer to write domain-specific, custom code generators. Ideally, a programming language for staging provides all necessary features for staging, and at the same time, gives static guarantee for the safety properties of generated code including well typedness…
Staging has proved a successful technique for programmatically removing code abstractions, thereby allowing for faster program execution while retaining a high-level interface for the programmer. Unfortunately, techniques based on staging suffer from a number of problems — rangin…
Implementing the type system of a programming language is a critical task that is often done in an ad-hoc fashion. Whilst this makes it hard to ensure the system is sound, it also makes it difficult to extend as the language evolves. We are interested in describing type systems u…
In order to achieve the highest possible performance, the ray traversal and intersection routines at the core of every high-performance ray tracer are usually hand-coded, heavily optimized, and implemented separately for each hardware platform—even though they share most of their…
Reflective supertype information (RSI) is useful for many instrumentation-based dynamic analyses on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). On the one hand, while such information can be obtained when performing the instrumentation within the same JVM process executing the instrumented p…
Many numerical algorithms are naturally expressed as operations on tensors (i.e. multi-dimensional arrays). Hence, tensor expressions occur in a wide range of application domains, e.g. quantum chemistry and physics; big data analysis and machine learning; and computational fluid …
Most modern software languages enjoy relatively free and relaxed concrete syntax, with significant flexibility of formatting of the program/model/sheet text. Yet, in the dark legacy corners of software engineering there are still languages with a strict fixed column-based structu…
Mobile robots often use a distributed architecture in which software components are deployed to heterogeneous hardware modules. Ensuring the consistency with the designed architecture is a complex task, notably if functional safety requirements have to be fulfilled. We propose to…
A software product line comprises a family of software products that share a common set of features. It enables customers to compose software systems from a managed set of features. Testing every product of a product line individually is often infeasible due to the exponential nu…
Most software systems are designed to provide custom functionality using configuration options. Testing such systems is challenging as running tests of a single configuration is often not sufficient, because defects may appear in other configurations. Ideally, all configurations …
Mainstream programming languages like Java have limited support for language extensibility. Without mechanisms for syntactic abstraction, new programming styles can only be embedded in the form of libraries, limiting expressiveness. In this paper, we present Recaf, a lightweight …