Press Release - RainCode for Ada

Press Release - RainCode for Ada

[Deborah Torrekens]

http://www.raincode.com

RainCode for Ada - Press Release - November 2001
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RainCode for Ada is a quality control technology that operates on large
amounts of existing Ada code, both legacy or during development.
RainCode detects, counts, and measures non-trivial things in your Ada
code, and it can take any corrective or preventive action in it.

RainCode measures compliance to coding standards based on style or on
technical matters (portability); or apply potentially large numbers of
automated patches. Such patch strategies address issues such as
modularisation, comments generation, etc.

How does it work? RainCode actually reads the Ada source code and builds
an annotated parse tree after a fully documented object model. A
scripting language can then be used to walk through the parse tree,
taking full advantage of the features provided by the object model.

RainCode for Ada performs more than just syntactical analysis; it
includes type analysis and a complete access to the tagging information
for each and every function, procedure, variable and type in the code.

The scripting language is a dynamically typed Pascal-like language,
which has a number of very useful features such as:

� Quantifiers
� Modularity
� Set-based operations (membership, union, difference, etc�)
� Access to XML trees through the DOM API
� Pattern matching, which allows you to comfortably express what you are
looking for in a program

More information available at www.raincode.com