My Boomerang TODO list April 5, 2008
Posted by lizardo in Reverse Engineering.comments closed
I have some items on my TODO list regarding Boomerang. Here they are:
- migrate functional testsuite to DejaGNU (on progress)
- increase test code coverage by writing new tests
- update/fix/extend unit tests
Migration to dejagnu will allow to write more flexible functional tests, such as ones to test for error handling. Right now, Boomerang’s functional testsuite only covers the decompilation phase (as far as I can see), and only covers 48.1% of code (according to gcov/lcov). Next, I plan to increase this coverage percentage by writing new tests (and understanding the code a bit more on the way) and finally, once I start getting hands dirty on coding, I will fix/extend unit tests.
These are my short term plans. Long term plans are (not detailed yet): remove dependency on some (old, unmaintained) third-party tools, such as NJMC toolkit and old bison++/flex++ (this needs to be discussed on the mailing list); reuse code where possible, instead of reimplementing things like the PE/ELF/etc. parsers; make boomerang more modular, possibly allowing to compile it as a shared library (already possible?) or replacing some algorithms; take a look at DCC code (now GPL licensed); experiment with new concepts on the RE/Decompilation research field.
