Subject: PEM Talk by Tiago Alves, April 23rd
From: "H.J.S. Basten" 
To: pem-list, sen1-list
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:50:58 +0200

Dear all,

I'm very pleased to announce our next PEM talk by Tiago Alves
(University of Minho, Portugal and Software Improvement Group), titled:

Comparative Study of Code Query Technologies

Abstract:

We determine the current state of the art for code query technologies
by comparing seven tools: Grok, Rscript, JRelCal, SemmleCode, JGraLab,
CrocoPat and JTransformer.
Our comparison involves twelve criteria, some of which are concerned
with properties of the tool (output formats, interactive interface,
API support, interchange formats, extraction support, and licensing),
and some of which are concerned with the query language itself (style/
paradigm, types, parametrization, polymorphism, modularity, and
libraries). The comparison between the query languages  is performed
by specifying an example query in each of them.
We conclude that there is not a particularly weak or dominant tool
among them.
As important points of improvement, we identified the provision of
libraries, the support of interchange formats, and the integration
with source code extraction components.

Date: Thursday, April 23rd
Time: 14:00
Room: M367, CWI

Hope to see you all there!

Best regards,

Bas Basten