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UNIT NAME

ACT

VERSION
2.00
REVIEW CODE
CS(Sun/Sun Ada; Alpha/DEC Ada); ES; C1 1.1 A
INET ADDRESS
conn@moncol.monmouth.edu
AUTHOR
William E. Blakeley, Jr., and Michael D. Garis
For questions about the tool, contact:
Richard Conn
Software Engineering Department
Monmouth College
West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898
RIGHTS
Approved for public release; distribution unlimited
COPYRIGHT
1994 Monmouth College
DATE CREATED
27 Sep 94
DATE RELEASED
27 Sep 94
DATE LAST UPDATED
27 Sep 94
LOCATION
PAL
ENVIRONMENT
Sun Sparc
DEC Alpha
LIMITATIONS
None
CERTIFICATION
Ada System Certifier_1 1.1
Date/Time of Processing: Thursday  29 September 1994 11:13:45Am
Overall Assessment of System: OK
Classification of System: A
Basis of Classification --
    Syntax Errors                               PASS
    Completeness                                PASS
    Independence from External Libraries        PASS
    Independence from a Specific Ada Compiler   PASS

Number of ...
  Files              18
  Library Units     133
  Lines           42745
  Statements      10595
  Comments        16881

CLASSIFICATION

KEYWORD
Ada95 Adoption
Adoption, Ada95
Ada83 to Ada95 Compatibility
INDEX
ACT
Blakeley, Jr., William E.
Garis, Michael D.
Monmouth Univ, SE Dept
DEPENDENCIES
CS Parts
SEE ALSO
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Detect problems in compiling Ada83 programs on Ada9X compilers
TAXONOMY


Software Development Tools
    Source Code Analysis
      Ada83 to Ada95 Compatibility Tool


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ABSTRACT

Ada Compatibility Tool (ACT)

Ada9X will soon be adopted as the new ANSI and ISO standard for the Ada programming language. Although most Ada83 programs will be upward compatible with the new standard, incompatibilities will exist in some programs due to the use of identifiers which are reserved words in Ada9X and a number of other detailed issues. The Ada9X Compatibility Tool (ACT) is an automated tool that has been designed to detect many of these incompatibilities.

Included in the release is a graduate thesis that describes the design, implementation, and use of the ACT. The ACT has been run against the test programs (included in the release) and over 5M lines of Ada source code from live Ada projects.

This tool was created by graduate students at Monmouth College who were pursuing Master of Software Engineering degrees. These students were members of the Software Engineering Intern program funded by the Army's Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Software Engineering Directorate (SED). Richard Conn, the faculty advisor for this project, is a full-time employee of The MITRE Corporation and an Adjunct Professor for Monmouth College.


REVISION HISTORY

2.00  27 Sep 94  Richard Conn  Initial release to the PAL

RELEASE NOTICE

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Restrictions on use or distribution:  NONE

DISCLAIMER

	This software and its documentation are provided "AS IS" and
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as to performance, merchantability, or fitness for a particular
purpose exist.
	The user is advised to test the software thoroughly before
relying on it.  The user must assume the entire risk and liability of
using this software.  In no event shall any person or organization of
people be held responsible for any direct, indirect, consequential or
inconsequential damages or lost profits.

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