[MonoDevelop] Code analysis soc project

[nikhil sarda]

Thanks for the reply.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Mike Krüger <mkrueger at novell.com> wrote:
> Hi
>> Apparently the current
>> version of NRefactory is not good enough to detect certain types of
>> semantic errors. Hence detecting errors such as invalid return types,
>> incorrect parameters and so on are very difficult to do with the
>> current NRefactory.
>
> These two are possible :) (but anything that needs some more analyzation
> than a resolve + type check is painful to implement)
>
>> This is because there is presently no way to go to
>> the parent of the node you've no way to go to the parent and top-down
>> analysis is difficult because "<mkrueger>: because you can't go to the
>> children of the nodes without knowing the type of the node". Some
>> things that can be implemented however are naming conventions,
>> spellings in comments and string literals and so on. Given this
>> backdrop is there any point proceeding with this project? Or should
>> one wait for the new DOM to be completed?
>
> The new dom currently is almost ready - if you want to work with that
> it's possible. You just need a customized mono compiler source code &
> comment out the parser file.

Has it been committed to trunk yet? Also a small introduction to the
API would be very handy as well :)

>> 1) Extending the Code metrics addin: The addin i posted on the mailing
>> list does quite a few things, but a lot is still left to implement,
>> such as cohesion, coupling and association between classes. Maybe I
>> can add a few more metrics such as
>> http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~sencer/oom.html
>> But the killer feature would be CQL, which allows one to query the
>> code base for types, methods and namespaces that satisfy criteria as
>> specified in a very SQL type language. NDepend implements CQL and I
>> will be trying to replicate that.
>>
>
> This seems to be a good project :)

Thanks!

> Regards
> Mike
>
>
Cheers!
Nikhil Sarda