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COMPUTERS (ISSN 2073-431X)

Special Issue
"Code Generation, Analysis and Quality Testing"

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/Code_GAQT
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Special Issue Guest Editors

- Prof. Alberto Simões
2Ai Lab, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave
- Prof. Ricardo Queirós
School of Media Arts and Design, Polytechnic Institute of Porto
- Prof. Mário Pinto
School of Media Arts and Design, Polytechnic Institute of Porto

Important Dates

- Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2019

Introduction

Programming is still a mainly manual process. The amount of detail a
programmer needs to consider while developing and algorithm can be
quite large. To help programmers, there are three main areas of
research:

1) Code Generation: The development of tools to generate code based on
domain specific languages. Some good old examples are compiler
generators, like flex or yacc. Other more recent tools follow this
idea, like Microsoft Entity Framework, or the VDMTools specification
language. Nevertheless, there is still room for improvement and
automation;

2) Code Analysis: A large amount of code is running on a daily basis on
the planet. While some code is quite recent, there is a large amount of
legacy software still running. Either to keep legacy software running
smoothly, or to help finding bugs in recently developed software, there
are tools and companies dedicated to analyzing code, finding its flaws.
Unfortunately, most of these tools do static analysis and still have
limitations when it comes to detecting some critical situations;

3) Code Testing: Related to the analysis of software is software
quality testing. In the last few years, a large number of programmers
have been adopting agile techniques that foster the usage of
test-driven development, feature-driven development, and continuous
integration and deployment. The main drawback is that tests are being
written by the same programmers developing applications, making the
development slower, and resulting in biased unit tests.

This Special Issue’s main focus is the development of tools and
practices to help developers in these three aspects.


Keywords

- automated development
- code generation
- quality assessment
- static code analysis
- unit testing
- automatic code tests
- code quality metrics


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