Keynote Address: .QL for Source Code Analysis

Many tasks in source code analysis can be viewed as evaluating queries over a relational representation of the code. Here we present an object-oriented query language, named .QL, and demonstrate its use for general navigation, bug finding and enforcing coding conventions. We then focus on the particular problem of specifying metrics as queries.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SCAM
• Authors: Oege de Moor, Mathieu Verbaere, Elnar Hajiyev, Pavel Avgustinov, Torbjörn Ekman, Neil Ongkingco, Damien Sereni, Julian Tibble
• Keywords: Many Tasks, Object-oriented Query Language, SCAM 2007, Software Engineering, Source Code Analysis