sle2019/vision2

SLE 2019 vision paper:
Breaking Parsers: Mutation-Based Generation of Programs with Guaranteed Syntax Errors

Moeketsi Raselimo, Jan Taljaard, Bernd Fischer

• 🏆 Distinguished Vision Paper Award
• DOI: 10.1145/3357766.3359542
• T1A: Design
  • The paper primarily contributes techniques for language definition (often syntax-related) as part of language design.
• T4A: Workbenches
  • It includes substantial tool support or infrastructure relevant for engineering/using languages.
• T6B: Industrial
  • It is motivated by or evaluated in an industrial/practical context.

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