• DocumentCode
    1704010
  • Title

    Extracting business rules from source code

  • Author

    Sneed, Harry M. ; Erdos, Katalin

  • Author_Institution
    SES Software-Eng. Service GmbH, Munich, Germany
  • fYear
    1996
  • Firstpage
    240
  • Lastpage
    247
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Program Comprehension, 1996, Proceedings., Fourth Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Berlin
  • ISSN
    1092-8138
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7283-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WPC.1996.501138
  • Filename
    501138