Developing a CIL Parser

The analysis of .NET libraries in [1] suggests the development of a tool for

automatic contract extraction from .NET classes. The article observes that

preconditions tend to be hidden under explicit exception cases. A tool leveraging

this observation has been developed as part of this diploma thesis and is

documented in this report. Although the chosen approach is limited to elementary

cases, the application of the tool to classes ArrayList, Stack and Queue

of the .NET framework [16] reveals that, in these classes, half or more of all explicit

exception cases can be addressed and the corresponding preconditions are

extracted by the current implementation. The report includes the documentation

of the tool’s implementation, a presentation of the results and a discussion

of limitations and extensions of the present approach and implementation.

final_report.pdf