We introduce ACER, an AST-based call graph generator framework. ACER leverages tree-sitter to interface with any language. We opted to focus on generators that operate on abstract syntax trees (ASTs) due to their speed and simplicitly in certain scenarios; however, a fully quantified intermediate representation usually provides far better information at the cost of requiring compilation. To evaluate our framework, we created two context-insensitive Java generators and compared them to existing open-source Java generators.
@article{arxiv.2308.15669,
title = {ACER: An AST-based Call Graph Generator Framework},
author = {Andrew Chen and Yanfu Yan and Denys Poshyvanyk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15669},
year = {2023}
}