A reverse engineering process aims at reconstructing el abstractions from source code. This paper presents a novel reverse engineering methodology for recovering stakeholder goal ...
Yijun Yu, Yiqiao Wang, John Mylopoulos, Sotirios L...
Several reverse engineering methods for recovering objects from legacy systems have been proposed in the literature, but most of them neglect to identify the relationships among t...
Giuseppe A. Di Lucca, Anna Rita Fasolino, Ugo de C...
— Reverse engineering of large legacy software systems generally cannot meet its objectives because it cannot be cost-effective. There are two main reasons for this. First, it is...
Bruce W. Weide, Wayne D. Heym, Joseph E. Hollingsw...
Central to any legacy migration project is the translation of the data model. Decisions made here will have strong implications to the rest of the translation. Some legacy languag...
Mariano Ceccato, Thomas Roy Dean, Paolo Tonella, D...
Legacy applications can be difficult and time-consuming to understand and update due to the lack of modern abstraction mechanisms in legacy languages, as well as the gradual dete...