Reduction of Program-generation Times by Transformation-sequence Optimization

Martin Kuhlemann, Andreas Lübcke, Gunter Saake

2012

Abstract

Transforming source code is common today. Such transformation process may involve the execution of a number of program transformations on the source code. Overall, the transformation process can last long when individual program transformations last long and when high numbers of program transformations need to be executed. In this paper, we introduce and discuss techniques that can reduce the time transformation tools need to produce a program.

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Kuhlemann M., Lübcke A. and Saake G. (2012). Reduction of Program-generation Times by Transformation-sequence Optimization . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8565-13-6, pages 182-186. DOI: 10.5220/0004093901820186


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@conference{enase12,
author={Martin Kuhlemann and Andreas Lübcke and Gunter Saake},
title={Reduction of Program-generation Times by Transformation-sequence Optimization},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2012},
pages={182-186},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004093901820186},
isbn={978-989-8565-13-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Reduction of Program-generation Times by Transformation-sequence Optimization
SN - 978-989-8565-13-6
AU - Kuhlemann M.
AU - Lübcke A.
AU - Saake G.
PY - 2012
SP - 182
EP - 186
DO - 10.5220/0004093901820186