Title :
Extracting business rules from source code
Author :
Sneed, Harry M. ; Erdos, Katalin
Author_Institution :
SES Software-Eng. Service GmbH, Munich, Germany
Abstract :
The paper reviews the state of the art on application knowledge acquisition from existing software systems and defines the role of business rules. It then goes on to present a method for identifying and extracting business rules by means of data output identification and program stripping. This method has been implemented in a reverse engineering tool SOFT-REDOC for COBOL programs. The results are intended to aid the business analyst in comprehending legacy programs
Keywords :
business data processing; knowledge acquisition; reverse engineering; software tools; COBOL programs; application knowledge acquisition; business analyst; business rule extraction; business rules; data output identification; legacy programs; program stripping; reverse engineering tool SOFT-REDOC; software systems; source code; Application software; Business; Data mining; Data structures; Documentation; Knowledge acquisition; Programming profession; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Program Comprehension, 1996, Proceedings., Fourth Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7283-8
DOI :
10.1109/WPC.1996.501138
