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Profile Detection Through Source Code Static Analysis

Authors Daniel Ferreira Novais, Maria João Varanda Pereira, Pedro Rangel Henriques

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  • Static analysis
  • metrics
  • programmer profiling

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The present article reflects the progress of an ongoing master's dissertation on language engineering. The main goal of the work here described, is to infer a programmer's profile through the analysis of his source code. After such analysis the programmer shall be placed on a scale that characterizes him on his language abilities. There are several potential applications for such profiling, namely, the evaluation of a programmer's skills and proficiency on a given language or the continuous evaluation of a student's progress on a programming course. Throughout the course of this project and as a proof of concept, a tool that allows the automatic profiling of a Java programmer is under development. This tool is also introduced in the paper and its preliminary outcomes are discussed.

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Daniel Ferreira Novais, Maria João Varanda Pereira, and Pedro Rangel Henriques. Profile Detection Through Source Code Static Analysis. In 5th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE'16). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 51, pp. 9:1-9:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2016.9

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Daniel Ferreira Novais
Maria João Varanda Pereira
Pedro Rangel Henriques

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