sle2018s/paper02

SLE 2018 SI paper:
MORBIG: A Static Parser for POSIX Shell

Yann Régis-Gianas, Nicolas Jeannerod, Ralf Treinen

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cola.2020.100944
• Extended version of Morbig: A Static Parser for POSIX Shell (SLE 2018)
• T4C: Vertical Transformation
  • The main contribution is a static parser for POSIX shell that resolves shell-specific syntactic challenges, i.e., a compilation-style front-end component.
• T3D: GPLs
  • The work targets the POSIX shell language, a widely used general-purpose scripting/programming language.
• T5E: Empirical Evaluation
  • The paper validates correctness/practicality via substantial evaluation on real-world scripts and comparisons against existing implementations.

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