Transformation of Constraint-based Analyses for Efficient Analysis of Java Programs

This paper proposes a transformation-based approach to design constraint-based analyses for Java at a coarser granularity. In this approach, we design a less or equally precise but more efficient version of an original analysis by transforming the original construction rules into new ones. As applications of this rule transformation, we provide two instances of analysis design by rule-transformation. The first one designs a sparse version of class analysis for Java and the second one deals with a sparse exception analysis for Java. Both are designed based on method-level, and the sparse exception analysis is shown to give the same information for every method as the original analysis.