Conceptual module querying for software reengineering

Author

Baniassad, Elisa L A ; Murphy, Gail C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

fYear

1998

fDate

19-25 Apr 1998

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

73

Abstract

Many tools have been built to analyze source code. Most of these tools do not adequately support reengineering activities because they do not allow a software engineer to simultaneously perform queries about both the existing and the desired source structure. This paper introduces the conceptual module approach that overcomes this limitation. A conceptual module is a set of lines of source that are treated as a logical unit. We show how the approach simplifies the gathering of source information for reengineering tasks, and describe how a tool to support the approach was built as a front-end to existing source analysis tools

Keywords

reverse engineering; software reusability; software tools; systems re-engineering; conceptual module querying; logical unit; reverse engineering; software reengineering; software reuse; software tools; source analysis tools; source code analysis; source information; Computer science; Data analysis; Data engineering; Information analysis; Performance analysis; Reverse engineering; Software performance; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8368-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.1998.671103

Filename

671103