Published April 13, 2025 | Version v1
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MeCheck: A Rule-Based Metadata Bug Detector (Artifact for FSE 2025)

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Virginia Tech
  • 2. ROR icon The University of Texas at San Antonio

Description

šŸ› ļø MeCheck: A Rule-Based Metadata Bug Detector for Java Projects

MeCheck (Metadata Checker) is a tool designed to detect metadata-related bugs in Java projects using a custom domain-specific language we created, called RSL (Rule Specification Language). It is particularly useful for analyzing the use of annotations, configuration files, and other project metadata that might go out of sync or cause bugs.

This tool was developed as part of our FSE 2025 paper and is available under an open-source license.

šŸ“Œ Features

  • Analyze Java projects for metadata-related bugs
  • Define your own rules using RSL
  • Run across commits of a project
  • View structured bug reports with detailed explanations

Files

mecheck-artifact-fse2025.zip

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplemented by
Preprint: arXiv:2502.14463 (arXiv)

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/mahirkabir
Programming language
Java
Development Status
Active