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Component-Level Dataflow Analysis

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Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2005)

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Interprocedural dataflow analysis has a wide range of uses in software maintenance, testing, verification, and optimization. Despite the large body of research on various analyses, the widespread adoption of these techniques faces serious challenges. In particular, when software is built with reusable components, the standard approaches for dataflow analysis cannot be applied. This paper proposes a model of component-level analysis which generalizes the traditional model of whole-program analysis. We outline the theoretical foundations of component-level analysis, discuss some of the key technical challenges for such analysis, and present initial results from our work on addressing these challenges.

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  1. Ohio State University,  

    Atanas Rountev

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, 01609, Worcester, MA, USA

    George T. Heineman

  2. School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

    Ivica Crnkovic

  3. Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Heinz W. Schmidt

  4. Tufts University, Computer Science, Boston, 161 College Avenue, 02155, Medford, MA, USA

    Judith A. Stafford

  5. Microsoft, USA

    Clemens Szyperski

  6. Software Engineering Institute,  

    Kurt Wallnau

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Rountev, A. (2005). Component-Level Dataflow Analysis. In: Heineman, G.T., Crnkovic, I., Schmidt, H.W., Stafford, J.A., Szyperski, C., Wallnau, K. (eds) Component-Based Software Engineering. CBSE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3489. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424529_6

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