Tutorials

Tutorials for soot

Reference Material

• Command line options and Phase options
• Soot API
• [Javadoc] (https://ssebuild.cased.de/nightly/soot/javadoc/)
• A Survivor's Guide to Java Program Analysis with Soot (by Arni Einarsson and Janus Dam Nielsen)
• PLDI Tutorial TODO: move to GitHub

General notions

• Fundamental Soot Objects
• Packs and phases in Soot
• A brief overview of Shimple

Getting Started

• Introduction: Soot as a command-line tool
• Disassembling classfiles
• Running Soot as Eclipse plugin

A few uses of Soot

• Using Soot as a Program Optimizer
• Using Soot and TamiFlex to analyze DaCapo
• Implementing an intra-procedural data-flow analysis in Soot
• Instrumenting Android Apps with Soot

Using Soot as a command-line tool

• Annotation Options for Array Bounds and Null Pointer Checks
• Using Side-Effect Attributes

Using the Soot Eclipse Plugin

• Plugin Installation

Using Soot as a compiler framework

• Creating a Class File from Scratch
• Adding attributes to class files (Basic)
• Adding attributes to class files (Advanced)
• Adding profiling instructions to applications
• Using Soot with custom entry points
• Whole program Devirtualization Optimizations
• Java's Invokedynamic

NOTE: If you find any bugs in those tutorials (or other parts of Soot) please help us out by reporting them in our issue tracker.