Moose wiki

A wiki gathering documentation related to Moose project. The main Moose source code repository on GitHub is: https://github.com/moosetechnology

For Beginners
For Users
For Developers
Other Documentation

FOR BEGINNERS

Install Moose
Moose in action
A video on How to use Moose 10 for software analysis

FOR USERS

After installing and running Moose, one typically:

loads a model of a software system to perform some analyses on it;
performs some queries on the model
builds some visualization of the model

Loading a model

You can find different Famix Model depending on the programming language. You’ll find here a first list of Famix model and generic tools ways to load Famix model

Famix Java

A popular meta-model is the Java meta-model:

Other programming languages

You may also use models for other programming languages (see also the Parsers section):

Famix AST (FAST)

FAST - Represent the AST in Famix
FAST-Java - Represent the Java AST in Famix
FAST-Pharo - Represent the Pharo AST in Famix

Performing queries

Typical Queries - presents how to perform typical queries
Moose Query
Tree Query

Moose IDE

Moose IDE is a group of tools that one can use to explore a model. In this section, we group the documentation for each tool.

Visualizing a model

Visualizations are built with the Roassal tool

Moose 8 documentation

FOR DEVELOPERS

A typical development action in Moose is to add a new programming language to the ones already understood. To be able to take advantage of all the existing tools, this implies writing a parser for the language (see below) and creating a new meta-model. There are also other possible actions.

Library of pre- defined entites/traits
Creating a meta-model
Dealing with a new language
Define baseline loading moose for your own projects

Parsers

Parsing source code to analyze is an important part of Moose. There are different (so-called) parsers already created at various stages of progress that you can use and/or contribute to.

Note: they do more than parsing since they also resolve names in the parsed code and this is not a small task.

Petit Parser - Write “easily” a Parser with Moose
VerveineJ - Generate an mse/json from a Java project
VerveineC-Cpp - Generate an mse/json from a C/C++ project
C# - A parser for C# (using Roselyn) that should be able to export a Moose model
PowerBuilderParser - Generate an mse from a Powerbuilder project

Advanced developers

Fame — The meta-meta-model

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