Tricorder: Building a Program Analysis Ecosystem
Abstract
Static analysis tools help developers find bugs, improve code readability, and ensure consistent style across a project. However, these tools can be difficult to smoothly integrate with each other and into the developer workflow, particularly when scaling to large codebases. We present Tricorder, a program analysis platform aimed at building a data-driven ecosystem around program analysis. We present a set of guiding principles for our program analysis tools and a scalable architecture for an analysis platform implementing these principles. We include an empirical, in-situ evaluation of the tool as it is used by developers across Google that shows the usefulness and impact of the platform.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Sadowski-al:ICSE15,
author = {Caitlin Sadowski and
Jeffrey van Gogh and
Ciera Jaspan and
Emma S{\"{o}}derberg and
Collin Winter},
title = {Tricorder: Building a Program Analysis Ecosystem},
booktitle = {ICSE (Part I)},
pages = {598--608},
publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
year = {2015},
}