Publication Details
Unite: An Adapter for Transforming Analysis Tools to Web Services via OSLC
Fiedor Jan, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)
Kratochvíla Tomáš, Mgr.
Křena Bohuslav, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)
Smrčka Aleš, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)
Vojnar Tomáš, prof. Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)
Transformation to web services, OSLC, OSLC Automation, Software analysis, Tool
integration, Eclipse Lyo
This paper describes Unite, a new tool intended as an adapter for transforming
non-interactive command-line analysis tools to OSLC-compliant web services. Unite
aims to make such tools easier to adopt and more convenient to use by allowing
them to be accessible, both locally and remotely, in a unified way and to be
easily integrated into various development environments. Open Services for
Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) is an open standard for tool integration and was
chosen for this task due to its robustness, extensibility, support of data from
various domains, and its growing popularity. The work is motivated by allowing
existing analysis tools to be more widely used with a strong emphasis on widening
their industrial usage. We have implemented Unite and used it with multiple
existing static as well as dynamic analysis and verification tools, and then
successfully deployed it internationally in the industry to automate verification
tasks for development teams in Honeywell. We discuss Honeywells experience with
using Unite and with OSLC in general. Moreover, we also provide the Unite Client
(UniC) for Eclipse to allow users to easily run various analysis tools directly
from the Eclipse IDE.
@inproceedings{BUT181498,
author="Ondřej {Vašíček} and Jan {Fiedor} and Tomáš {Kratochvíla} and Bohuslav {Křena} and Aleš {Smrčka} and Tomáš {Vojnar}",
title="Unite: An Adapter for Transforming Analysis Tools to Web Services via OSLC",
booktitle="ESEC/FSE 2022: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering",
year="2022",
pages="1408--1418",
publisher="Association for Computing Machinery",
address="Singapore",
doi="10.1145/3540250.3558939",
isbn="978-1-4503-9413-0",
url="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3540250.3558939"
}