A Program Synthesis Approach for Adding Architectural Tactics to An Existing Code Base

@article{Shokri2021APS,
  title={A Program Synthesis Approach for Adding Architectural Tactics to An Existing Code Base},
  author={Ali Shokri},
  journal={2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)},
  year={2021},
  pages={1388-1390}
}
  • A. Shokri
  • Published 16 August 2021
  • Computer Science
  • 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
Automatically constructing a program based on given specifications has been studied for decades. Despite the advances in the field of Program Synthesis, the current approaches suffer from a twofold issue: highly relying on the programmer for providing the specifications, and leaving the task of incorporating the synthesized code in an existing code base to program developers. Due to its program-wide effects, synthesizing an architectural tactic and reusing it in a program is even more… 
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