Static analysis means extracting specific information from the program artifacts, e.g., source code, without any execution of the program. The ANTLR tool can be used to perform all types of static analysis at the source-code level. In this tutorial, I explain how we can use the ANTLR tool to perform some basic kinds of static analysis of the C++ programs in the Python programming language. The task I chose to explain is extracting the class diagram and computing the relevant design metrics.

Advanced Software Engineering, graduate course.

Compiler design and constructions, Undergraduate course (Bachelor).

ANTLR is a parser generator that can generate the parser program from context-free grammar descriptions specified in the ANTLR grammar format. In this tutorial, I explain how we can generate and use the Java parser with ANTLR in the Python programming language.

Fuzz testing (Fuzzing) is a dynamic software testing technique. In this technique with repeated generation and injection of malformed test data to the software under test (SUT), we are looking for possible faults and vulnerabilities.