diff --git a/_events/2024-05-8-quentin-lunch-talk.md b/_events/2024-05-8-quentin-lunch-talk.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d0996f --- /dev/null +++ b/_events/2024-05-8-quentin-lunch-talk.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +layout: event +title: "Precise Temporal Analysis Of Source Code Histories At Scale" +categories: [events,lunch-talks] +start: "11:15" +end: "12:00" +speaker: Quentin Le Dilavrec +where: "Hybrid" +--- + +**Abstract** + +This talk is related to the results of my PhD, which I defended last February. +I will present some of the results and mention the scientific contribution (papers), +but I will give priority to possible synergies between these works and the interests of the group. +Actually, during my PhD I developed a library to help with analysing histories of source code, called the HyperAST. +I believe the HyperAST could be used in the team to answer software engineering questions using the code versioned in github repositories. +The HyperAST presents an AST view to the source code, and provides features like structured diffs, tracking, reference analysis, dynamic queries, ... +Internally, it leverages a DAG representation where the nodes of the AST are deduplicated, i.e., a collection of unique code subtrees. +The HyperAST approach leverages its internal representation to offer new trade-offs when designing source code analyses, +notably, by splitting an analysis into modules that compute intermediate results only depending on local information, +then these intermediate results are computed and persisted once per deduplicated node, +thus making the overall analysis incremental and more capable of scaling on large software projects.