Reflections on metaprogramming

Lee, A.H.; Zachary, Joseph L.

doi:10.1109/32.473217

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“…To examine a running program, for example, a tool has to perform introspection operations (i.e., inspecting state and structure). Likewise, to change the behavior or structure of the program under test during run time, tools have to resort to intercession [16].…”

Section: Objectives and Rationalementioning

confidence: 99%

Toward Harnessing High-Level Language Virtual Machines for Further Speeding Up Weak Mutation Testing

Durelli

Offutt

Delamaro

2012

2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

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Abstract-High-level language virtual machines (HLL VMs) are now widely used to implement high-level programming languages. To a certain extent, their widespread adoption is due to the software engineering benefits provided by these managed execution environments, for example, garbage collection (GC) and cross-platform portability. Although HLL VMs are widely used, most research has concentrated on high-end optimizations such as dynamic compilation and advanced GC techniques. Few efforts have focused on introducing features that automate or facilitate certain software engineering activities, including software testing. This paper suggests that HLL VMs provide a reasonable basis for building an integrated software testing environment. As a proof-of-concept, we have augmented a Java virtual machine (JVM) to support weak mutation analysis. Our mutation-aware HLL VM capitalizes on the relationship between a program execution and the underlying managed execution environment, thereby speeding up the execution of the program under test and its associated mutants. To provide some evidence of the performance of our implementation, we conducted an experiment to compare the efficiency of our VM-based implementation with a strong mutation testing tool (muJava). Experimental results show that the VM-based implementation achieves speedups of as much as 89% in some cases.

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Section: Objectives and Rationalementioning

confidence: 99%

Toward Harnessing High-Level Language Virtual Machines for Further Speeding Up Weak Mutation Testing

Durelli

Offutt

Delamaro

2012

2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

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“…Reflection has also been used to incorporate fault-tolerance techniques into applications. Lee extends the Common List Object System [19] to support persistence using reflection in [20]. Fabre exploits reflective features of the language open-C++ to incorporate replication techniques into applications transparently [8].…”

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Using Reflection for Incorporating Fault-Tolerance Techniques Into Distributed Applications

Nguyen-Tuong

Grimshaw

1999

Parallel Process. Lett.

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As part of the Legion metacomputing project, we have developed a reflective model, the Reflective Graph & Event (RGE) model, for incorporating functionality into applications. In this paper we apply the RGE model to the problem of making applications more robust to failures. RGE encourages system developers to express fault-tolerance algorithms in terms of transformations on the data structures that represent computations — messages and methods — hence enabling the construction of generic and reusable fault-tolerance components. We illustrate the expressive power of RGE by encapsulating the following fault-tolerance techniques into RGE components: two-phase commit distributed checkpointing, passive replication, pessimistic method logging, and forward recovery.

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“…In order to enclose a structure of the artifact from its representation in a database, we used a reflective approach [8,9]. Reflection is a mechanism of meta-programming that allows obtaining (a) (b) Fig.…”

Section: Reflective Data Representationmentioning

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The Architectural Pattern of a Highly Extensible System for the Asynchronous Processing of a Large Amount of Data

Hwang¹,

Kim²,

An³

et al. 2013

Journal of Information Processing Systems

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Abstract-In this paper, we have proposed an architectural solution for a system for the visualization and modification of large amounts of data. The pattern is based on an asynchronous execution of programmable commands and a reflective approach of an object structure composition. The described pattern provides great flexibility, which helps adopting it easily to custom application needs. We have implemented a system based on the described pattern. The implemented system presents an innovative approach for a dynamic data object initialization and a flexible system for asynchronous interaction with data sources. We believe that this system can help software developers increase the quality and the production speed of their software products.

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Reflections on metaprogramming

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Toward Harnessing High-Level Language Virtual Machines for Further Speeding Up Weak Mutation Testing

Toward Harnessing High-Level Language Virtual Machines for Further Speeding Up Weak Mutation Testing

Using Reflection for Incorporating Fault-Tolerance Techniques Into Distributed Applications

The Architectural Pattern of a Highly Extensible System for the Asynchronous Processing of a Large Amount of Data

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