Moose wiki

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

Contents

• 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:

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

Loading a model

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

• Famix Maker
• Analyse Java Project

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

• Importing and exporting models
• Moose supported file format

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.

• Moose IDE Browsers
• Moose IDE Workflow — Usage of buses in Moose IDE

Visualizing a model

Visualizations are built with the Roassal tool

Moose 8 documentation

• Inspector
• Meta Browser

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
• 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 from a Java 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

OTHER DOCUMENTATION

Moose is an extensive platform for software and data analysis. It offers multiple services ranging from importing and parsing data, to modeling, to measuring, querying, mining, and to building interactive and visual analysis tools.

The following resources are also useful to understand Moose:

• Moose Technology - the main web site for Moose.
• The Moose Book - a tutorial for using Moose to analyze Java source code (Moose 6).