NDLI: Ontology Model-Based Static Analysis on Java Programs

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lian Yu Jun Zhou Yue Yi Ping Li Qianxiang Wang
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Software & Microelectron., Peking Univ., Beijing (Lian Yu; Jun Zhou; Yue Yi; Ping Li)
Abstract	Typical enterprise and military software systems consist of millions of lines of code with complicated dependence on diverse library abstractions. Manually debugging these codes imposes developers overwhelming workload and difficulties. To address software quality concerns efficiently, this paper proposes an ontology-based static analysis approach to automatically detect bugs in the source code of Java programs. First, we elaborate bug list collected, classify bugs into different categories, and translate bug patterns into SWRL (semantic Web rule language) rules using an ontology tool, Protege. An ontology model of Java program is created according to Java program specification using Protege as well. Both SWRL rules and the program ontology model are exported in OWL (Web ontology language) format. Second, Java source code under analysis is parsed into the abstract syntax tree (AST), which is automatically mapped to the individuals of the program ontology model. SWRL bridge takes in the exported OWL file (representing the SWRL rules model and program ontology model) and the individuals created for the Java code, conduits to Jess (a rule engine), and obtains inference results indicating any bugs. We perform experiments to compare bug detection capability with well-known FindBugs tool. A prototype of bug detector tool is developed to show the validity of the proposed static analysis approach.
Starting Page	92
Ending Page	99
File Size	691239
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769532622
ISSN	07303157
DOI	10.1109/COMPSAC.2008.73
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-07-28
Publisher Place	Finland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Java OWL Computer bugs Ontologies Cognition Bridges Analytical models reasoning Program ontology model static analysis bug detector abstract syntax tree (AST)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Applications Software

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