CDT/Archive/designs/StaticAnalysis/GSoC

Note: The contents of this page refer to design documents reflecting work in progress of Eclipse CDT features and for some features that have never been implemented. Therefore they may not refer to the current state of CDT.

Requirements

Mandatory courses/experience with:

• Compiler Technologies
• Programming in Java
• Programming in C/C++ (either)

Recommended experience with:

• Eclipse Plugin Development
• Bugzilla - bug tracking system
• CVS - source control system
• Contributing to open source project

Ideas

• Checkers - come up with set of checkers for the area of interest such as code style, programming errors, security vulnerabilities and corresponding software transformation tools
• Searchers - advanced seach capabilities for software, such as "find a function foo which has null as second parameter" - all parameters are provided by user
• Metrics - framework, UI and tools to collect and display various software metrics
• Architecture - checkers or tool to display software architecture (reverse engineered from the source)
• Code Clones - utility to find code clones within the software
• Software Models - build other software models, export to exiting standard models, etc

Template

It is not really a template but section that your proposal should have:

• What you are intending to do and why it is exciting
• What open source project you want to work with and why, you can mention what license you will use (EPL)
• Include your background and why are interested in doing this specific project
• Details on what you want to implement, including design of software and additional parts such as unit testing, documentation etc
• Scope of work and plan
• Future plans if any