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...
Software evolution is the most costly and time consuming software development activity. Yet software engineering research is predominantly concerned with initial development. MORA...
Gregory D. Abowd, Ashok K. Goel, Dean F. Jerding, ...
In this age of complex business landscapes, many enterprises turn to SOA for aligning their IT portfolio with their business. Because of the enormous business risk involved with r...
A challenge of componentizing legacy applications is to extract behavior specification of suggested components. It is desirable to preserve a relation between the original structur...
—More and more current software systems rely on non trivial coordination logic for combining autonomous services typically running on different platforms and often owned by diffe...