Graduate Project Proposal: (Alternative) Implementation Strategies for Island Parsers

The Software Improvement Group (SIG) offers specialized services that helps companies gaining insight in their legacy code bases. To this end, the internal design structure of a code base is captured by the SIG in a so called source model. A source model can be used, for example, to estimate the amount of work needed for future modifications or to report on various software metrics of the code base under consideration. To extract source models from a code base, the SIG uses existing and develops new generic source model extraction frameworks. Upon these frameworks specific applications can be build, like the SIG software document generation tool DocGen [5], applications for code quality assessments and tools for code transformations [8].