Upcoming Seminar: Spoofax: A Development Environment for Software Transformations

As part of the PhD formalities, I'm required to hold a seminar on a topic of my own choosing. It's supposed to demonstrate to willing (or not-so-willing) listeners that I know how to talk scientifically and intelligibly about at least one subject.

I decided to present the Eclipse plugin for Stratego I've been hacking on for the last two years. It's becoming a rather interesting development environment, and I suspect that people with an interest in computer languages and/or development environments might actually find some of the material interesting.

Everybody, even (perhaps especially!) non-university folks are of course welcome to drop in, if they have the time.

Software development is expensive primarily because of the associated
maintenance cost; recent estimates suggest that about 70-90% of the
total cost of a software product is due to maintenance. It is therefore
desirable to automate as tasks as possible by supplying convenient and
powerful maintenance tools to the developers. This automation requires
the construction of software that analyses and transforms
other software.

In this talk, I will demonstrate Spoofax, an interactive program
transformation environment based on Eclipse. This environment supports
the development of stand-alone software transformation programs using
the Stratego software transformation language and the XT toolkit of
transformation components. I will demonstrate the applicability of
Spoofax and Stratego/XT through a series of transformation programs for
Java code.

Time: 14:15, Tuesday 8th of May (Updated Again)
Location: Lunchroom, 3rd Floor, Informatikkblokken, Høyteknologisenteret i Bergen
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If you're vaguely interested in dropping in, but don't know exactly where to go, contact me or drop by room 4152A (my office) in the fourth floor in the Informatics-wing of HIB around 14:05, and I'll guide you.