Compiler-based programming support capabilities
Gary Bray, Roger Lipsett, William G. Bail, Victor Berman · 1982
An effort to determine a set of features offered by program analysis and testing tools that could be feasibly implemented in a compiler is reported.Currently, program analysis and testing tools offer features that require syntactical analysis of a program in a manner similar to compilers. Much of theinformation that is generated during compilation could be used to aid program development in other ways.It was the goal of this effort to identify a set of software tool features and develop a methodology for combining these into a compiler.