The initial goals of the redesign are:

• redesign the first page to make the message clear: Crafting analyses made easy;
• provide a get started set of pages;
• provide a structure for documentation;
• provide a better space for sub projects.

If you are interested in contributing, either with your skills or with your ideas, please contact Tudor.

The continuous integration job is our witness:
http://ci.moosetechnology.org

The conference will take place at the University of Bern during April 2-4:

• PharoConf (April 2,3)
• MooseDay (April 4)

The conference will be free and will even include a free lunch. Yes, free lunch. No trick. We only kindly ask you to register online for each event as soon as possible.

Students sponsorships

• ESUG will sponsor the travel of up to 10 students with 150 EUR / person. Please apply for sponsorship by mail at esug-info@esug.org. First-come, first-served.
• The conference sponsors will sponsor the travel of up to 10 students with up to 200 CHF / person. Please apply for sponsorship before the conference by mail at tudor@tudorgirba.com. First-come, first-served.

Important

If you are a student, please bring your student cards with you to help us limit the lunch costs.

Cheers,
The organizers

First, the Moose code was relocated to SmalltalkHub, the new cool place to be in the Pharo world. Most of the projects are now placed under the blessing of the Moose team. If you want to participate, just let us know.

Second, and perhaps most important, we have moved to Pharo 2.0, the soon to be released version of Pharo. With this move, a part of the code pioneered in Moose could simply be dropped because it is already present in Pharo 2.0. The transition was mostly smooth and it is highly recommended for anyone developing in Pharo.

Third, Moose 4.8 now builds on a new Jenkins infrastructure offered by INRIA. There are still a few red tests, but we are working on greening them. With the move to Pharo 2.0, we also simplified dramatically the build jobs by using the ZeroConf infrastructure.

What is new:

• Integration of the Roassal visualization engine
• New PetitParser browser with integrated refactorings
• Improved Glamorous Toolkit for Pharo including the Glamorous Inspector and Debugger
• Several features in Glamour including Watcher support (similar to OS X preview)
• Significant improvements in FAMIX
• Improved external VerveineJ parser for Java
• Based on Pharo 1.4

A list of issues addressed in this release can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/list?can=1&q=status=Fixed%20milestone=4.7

Moose apprentice is an introductory course that takes you on a ride to learn to use the Moose analysis platform for putting the humane assessment method into practice. It is dedicated to software engineers that want to get better at extracting useful information out of their systems. The course sessions are driven by hands-on exercises.

To register, please contact Tudor Girba directly.

The talk was accompanied by hands-on demos. Given that the audience was formed of smalltalk-fluent programmers, so were the examples based on a Smalltalk case study. And what better Smalltalk case study than Moose itself.

The demos exhibit several scenarios that call for analyses. In the process of providing answers the speaker used several custom analyses that involved crafting:

• custom queries and metrics,
• a custom visualisation, and
• an interactive browser.

Roassal est un outil de visualisation agile permettant de représenter graphiquement des données en utilisant un langage métier (domain-specific language) basé sur Smalltalk. Un grand nombre de mode d’interactions (zoom, glisser&déposer, mise en interconnection) sont autorisées pour que l’utilisateur puisse interagir de manière complexe avec son modèle objet.

His work has both been supported by and has influenced significantly Moose. The code is available in the Moose JEE project.

Abstract:

Nowadays a large majority of software systems are built using various technologies that in turn rely on different languages (e.g. Java, XML, SQL etc.). We call such systems heterogeneous applications (HAs). By contrast, we call software systems that are written in one language homogeneous applications. In HAs the information regarding the structure and the behaviour of the system is spread across various components and languages and the interactions between different application elements could be hidden. In this context applying existing reverse engineering and quality assurance techniques developed for homogeneous applications is not enough. These techniques have been created to measure quality or provide information about one aspect of the system and they cannot grasp the complexity of HAs. In this dissertation we present our approach to support the analysis and evolution of HAs based on: (1) a unified first-class description of HAs and, (2) a meta-model that reifies the concept of horizontal and vertical dependencies between application elements at different levels of abstraction. We implemented our approach in two tools, MooseEE and Carrack. The first is an extension of the Moose platform for software and data analysis and contains our unified meta-model for HAs. The latter is an engine to infer derived dependencies that can support the analysis of associations among the heterogeneous elements composing HA. We validate our approach and tools by case studies on industrial and open-source JEAs which demonstrate how we can handle the complexity of such applications and how we can solve problems deriving from their heterogeneous nature.

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