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Ade-Ibijola, Abejide

 
9783330029057: New Finite Automata Applications in Novice Program Comprehension
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3330029056 ISBN 13 : 9783330029057
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Automatically comprehending novice programs with the aim of giving useful feedback has been an Artificial Intelligence problem for over four decades. Solving this problem basically entails manipulating the underlying program plans; i.e. extracting and comparing the novice's plan to the expert's plan and inferring where the novice's bug is from. The bugs of interest in this domain are often semantic bugs as all syntactic bugs are handled by automatic debuggers — built in most compilers. Hence, a program that debugs like the human expert should understand the problem and know the expected solution(s) in order to detect semantic bugs. This book proposes a new approach to comprehending novice programs using: regular expressions for the recognition of plans in the program text, finite automata for defining the space of program plan variations, and automata-based algorithms for the detection of semantic bugs. The new approach is tested with a repository of novice programs with known semantic bugs and specific bugs were detected. As a proof of concept, the theories presented in this book are further implemented in software prototypes.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Automatically comprehending novice programs with the aim of giving useful feedback has been an Artificial Intelligence problem for over four decades. Solving this problem basically entails manipulating the underlying program plans; i.e. extracting and comparing the novice's plan to the expert's plan and inferring where the novice's bug is from. The bugs of interest in this domain are often semantic bugs as all syntactic bugs are handled by automatic debuggers — built in most compilers. Hence, a program that debugs like the human expert should understand the problem and know the expected solution(s) in order to detect semantic bugs. This book proposes a new approach to comprehending novice programs using: regular expressions for the recognition of plans in the program text, finite automata for defining the space of program plan variations, and automata-based algorithms for the detection of semantic bugs. The new approach is tested with a repository of novice programs with known semantic bugs and specific bugs were detected. As a proof of concept, the theories presented in this book are further implemented in software prototypes.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Abejide Ade-Ibijola holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (specializing in Program Comprehension) from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in 2016. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Information Systems at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3330029056
ISBN 13 
9783330029057
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
188
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