GRaViTY-Tool

The GRaViTY tool is a research prototype for the analysis of software design and security, evaluation and execution of refactorings and automated software optimization.

• Sven Peldszus: Security Compliance in Model-driven Development of Software Systems in Presence of Long-Term Evolution and Variants, Springer, 2022 - book
• Sebastian Ruland, Géza Kulcsár, Erhan Leblebici, Sven Peldszus, Malte Lochau: Controlling the Attack Surface of Object-Oriented Refactorings. In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Fundamental Approaches in Software Engineering (FASE), pp. 38-55, April 2018 - paper - open access
• Sven Peldszus, Géza Kulcsár, Malte Lochau, Sandro Schulze: On Continuous Detection of Design Flaws in Evolving Object-Oriented Programs using Incremental Multi-pattern Matching. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Software Engineering (SE), Gesellschaft für Informatik, 2018 - paper
• Sven Peldszus, Géza Kulcsár, Malte Lochau, Sandro Schulze: Continuous Detection of Design Flaws in Evolving Object-Oriented Programs using Incremental Multi-pattern Matching. In: Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), September 2016 - preprint
• Sven Peldszus, Géza Kulcsár, Malte Lochau, Sandro Schulze: Incremental Co-Evolution of Java Programs based on Bidirectional Graph Transformation. In: Proceedings of the Principles and Practices of Programming on The Java Platform (PPPJ), ACM, pp. 138-151, 2015 - paper
• Sven Peldszus, Géza Kulcsár, Malte Lochau: A Solution to the Java Refactoring Case Study using eMoflon. In: Tassilo Horn, Filip Krikava, Louis Rose (editors): Proceedings of the 8th Transformation Tool Contest (TTC), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 118-122, July 2015 - paper - open access
• Géza Kulcsár, Sven Peldszus, Malte Lochau: Object-oriented Refactoring of Java Programs using Graph Transformation. In: Tassilo Horn, Filip Krikava, Louis Rose (editors): Proceedings of the 8th Transformation Tool Contest (TTC), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 53-82, July 2015 - paper - open access

Installation

The tool can be installed from the following updatesite into Eclipse 2023-12: https://gravity-tool.github.io/updatesite

All dependencies should be installed automatically. Sometimes it is necessary to activate the updated sides added while installing manually.

Repository description

This is the main repository under which everything is merged

HowTo Build GRaViTY using Maven

1. Clone this repository including submodules
2. Run ''mvn verify''

HowTo Build GRaViTY in Eclipse

Requirements:

1. Eclipse (tested with 2023-12)
2. Eclipse plugins:
   a) MoDisco Plugin b) eMoflon::TIE (www.emoflon.org), now hosted at https://gravity-tool.org/emoflon-tie/updatesite/

Get the source code:

• The whole project is hosted in a git repository via Github: https://github.com/GRaViTY-Tool/gravity-tool
• For student theses, every student should get his/her own branch

Structure of the git Repository:

• evaluation --> Evaluation projects for automating the evaluation of different papers.
• implementation --> The implementation of the GRaViTY tool.
• build --> The feature projects and updatesite

Building in Eclipse:

1. Import all projects from the Implementation folder into an Eclipse workspace
2. Refresh all projects
3. Build all projects with the eMoflon build command
4. Tweak memory in runtime configuration arguments to avoid GC or Heap Errors when processing larger projects with GRaViTY. (e.g. to "-Xms1024m, -Xmx4096m, XXMaxPermSize512m" or depending on the amount of memory installed in your machine even higher values for "-Xmx")

Developers

• Sven Peldszus
• Sebastian Ruland
• Géza Kulcsár
• ...

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the Eclipse Public License - seet the LICENSE file for details.

Contact

Sven Peldszus ([email protected])
Ruhr University Bochum Bochum, Germany