In our new publication SPLLIFT — Statically Analyzing Software Product Lines in Minutes Instead of Years (to appear at PLDI’13) we show how to efficiently conduct inter-procedural, flow-sensitive, context-sensitive data-flow analysis for software product lines. Previously, such analyses would have taken years, due to the many software configurations a product line encodes. Our approach SPLlift processes the entire product line at once, and typically within minutes, without any loss of precision. It works for any IFDS-based data-flow analysis. SPLlift is available as an open-source extension to our IFDS/IDE solver Heros. To access our benchmark data, click here. This is joint work with Mira Mezini, Claus Brabrand, Társis Tolêdo, Márcio Ribeiro and Paulo Borba. Read the rest of this entry »
