Tutorial

Following, we describe how to use the PLAR-tool in a simple 3-step-way:

• The first step suggest the use of Stan4J to support the information extraction process. We also performed empirical studies with Analizo and Understand. We will publish the findings soon.
• The second step focus on exporting and organising the recovered information in a folder.
• The third step focus on running PLAR-tool and describing the output generated.

PLAR-tool uses trivial graph format (*.tgf) as input:

1 class_A  //class A
2 class_B  //class B
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1 2  //class_A calls class_B

1. To extract PLAR-input in automated way, we suggest the installation and use of Stan4J.:

• Installing Stan4J as Eclipse plugin, or
• Download standalone version of Stan4j

2. Exporting the variants structural information extracted with Stan4J.

• Follow the steps describe in this guideline.
• For more information about dependency analysis using Stan4J, check the following link.

3. Running the PLAR-tool

• Download the PLAR-tool latest version.
• Follow the steps describe in this guideline