Code Review Tool

[gmdurga]

Hi,

Can anyone give me an idea whether is there any tools available to do the progress code review and to find out if any parameter (order) passed incorrectly to a procedure procedure in the calling palce.

Example:

Procedure ipsample:
DEFINE INPUT PARAMETER ch1 AS CHAR NO-UNDO.
DEFINE INPUT PARAMETER in1 AS INT NO-UNDO.
/**/
End Procedure.

But the procedure calls by passing the parameter in the reverse order RUN ipsample(INT,CHAR).

Thanks in advance.

 

[tamhas]

The prominent code quality tool for ABL is ProLint http://www.oehive.org/prolint

However, it will not address the issue you ask about since it analyzes one compile unit at a time. I and some others over on OE Hive have been talking about building a sort of Super-XREF database, similar in concept to the many databases people have built from COMPILE XREF output, but using the full power of Proparse and ProRefactor to provide a much richer source of information. We could certainly do signature testing in that context.

 

[GregTomkins]

It's also easy enough to parse a procedure's parameters out of .R files ... easier than parsing source, I think (no need to deal with comments, includes, preprocessor, etc.) I'm not sure about parsing out the details of the RUN statement, though... I've been meaning to look into that.