Introducing support for Erlang into SSQSA framework

Abstract

© 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. Set of Software Quality Static Analyzers (SSQSA) is a framework which includes set of software tools for static analysis. Starting aim of the framework is consistent software quality analysis. The main characteristic of all integrated tools is the independency of the input programming language. Each of the integrated analysers can be uniformly applied to any software systems that are written in different programming languages. In SSQSA framework, language independency is achieved by enriched Concrete Syntax Tree (eCST). eCST is used as an internal representation of the source code. Currently, SSQSA supports some representative input languages. Still the support for functional language is missing. For introducing the support for new input language into SSQSA framework straightforward semi-automated procedure is established. In this paper we explore possibility to add support for functional languages into SSQSA framework. Furthermore, we describe alternative way to add support for new language. Described research is made on the case of Erlang.